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May be they should restrict it to 2 or 3 words without punctuation.
If it's 3 non-repeating unordered words, the minimum vocabulary will need to be 256*3 = 768. Realistically you'll need an order of magnitude larger. That's a pretty large vocabulary.
The audience names a color, and the lights change accordingly. I remember attending a talk of his where he briefly mentioned the huge color name mapping he created for this piece!
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I believe it's 256
I was so happy when I reached that number (or whatever it was) and didn't have to look at the orange bar any more. For anyone looking for a more tasteful topcolor, try d0c8b5. It's just a darker version of the main HN background color, so it's easy on the eyes.
Cheers
For example: https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=+Safety+Orange+
Deciding what to call a color is going to require more than seeing which name for each color gets the most votes. For a set of names to be useful, they need to make sense when taken as a set.
As long as they include rebeccapurple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer#Personal_life
Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.
I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?
I propose that names be considered more like probability distributions. For example the name “red” has a probability distribution that probably peaks in the neighbourhood of #FF0000 but includes a large range of colors; the distribution of the name “crimson” likely has a much narrower distribution. Under this interpretation, and given enough data, one could feasibly extract “the” name for any given colour using a max…
Particularly, what you're describing is this: http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png :-)
