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I suspect you didn't catch gp's meaning: To get to 24 bits of color info, you'd need at least 3 words of 8 bit info each. If you want these to be non-repeating and unordered that makes 256x3=768 unique words.
This isn't correct though. You need 256 base words, and two substitute words, one of which substitutes for the first repeat, and the other for the second, so 258 words total.
As colour blind (I fall under the umbrella of Deuteranomaly) I must only celebrate this kind of efforts. I should probably know better but if I recall, up to 8-10% of male population can suffer some kind of colour blindness so it's a huge slice of population that can be benefitted from this. Cheers
All humans are colour blind to some degree; as they get older, even more so.
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What does 'telling a color apart' even mean? I did a mini project some time ago, where I basically did some custom color quantization (it was to reduce an image into a configurable amount of discrete colors, to make a pixel quilt with a manageable amount of distinct fabric colors). So I used CieLAB colors to calculate the 'visual distance' between the available colors and then recursively merged colors until I got to…
> What does 'telling a color apart' even mean? Being able to distinguish colors on a test such as https://xritephoto.com/cool-tools
But somehow, on all rows, the colors just seemed to snap into place for me, is that a normal feeling?
However, I have a few concerns. It does provide feedback "That name already exists in 3 other places." with a warning sign. It really shouldn't, for quite a few reasons:
- Names that make sense will appear many times over. It is natural and good. It will make the final result MUCH more robust if we look at the most common color.
- Right now it promotes the first move. If someone uses color "sea" for "#003b3b" (Mexican gulf oil spill?) it discourages others for using the same name for more suiting colors. The problem can be anything: poor English vocabulary, typo, atypical connotation, poor color display, etc, etc.
- Then the feedback says that my voice will be the name of a color. Too much pressure for me. English is not my mother tongue. I am am not a graphic designer. My display is good, but clearly not good enough to distinguish the tiniest changes.
I think we should also name the numbers between 1 and 1,000,000 wiht unique names. The current names we use have too many patterns :D The number 173,515 could be a "singing dog", etc.
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And here I thought it was released for everyone at the point where I apparently hit that number. Is it just me, or is the fact that it's based on karma not clear?
I mean, Hackernews isn't known for its good UX. What does "showdead", "noprocrast", "maxvisit", "minaway", "delay" do in the profile? I've been using HN for a while and I have no clue