Ha I got a random color and thought “Mutant Green”. Turns out there are 4 other colors named that! Well done all around!!
Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
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#172It's a great project from a great idea, but I'm a little desapointed that it seems to be turned into a joke contest.
For example, most voted name for 000009 is "Really Dark Blue ", which does not really work...
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#173Can't we do this automatically using webscraping + nlp + image processing?
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#174The variety of colors people associate with petrichor is interesting.
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#175Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
#176I'm still working diligently on counting the grains of sand on the beach closest to me, and hopefully we can pool all of our work together for a final count. As soon as that's done I'll start trying to name all the stars. Colors? I'm tired already.
Grains of sand? Easy! Want a real challenge? Try naming all the numbers between 0 and 1! I've been at it for weeks and struggling to get much past 0.
Ha, I thought of doing that but decided it would be too hard, so i picked the much easier challenger of naming the numbers between 0-0.01. I'll be finished in no time.
Though it did cross my mind to split the range in to 2 parts and then recursively bin each part in two; if I allow repeating names ... Perhaps then ones chances would be greater than zero.
;oP
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#177I'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?
Depending on how it's produced it's not even _a_ colour, it's three colours, or two colours, then the same two with a bit of blue. Perhaps my eyes lack a normal number of blue receptors, and a substantial amount of blue still wouldn't alter the perceived colour.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc: blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)
Are they doing names for families of colors? Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo. Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.
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#179If I ever need a quick colour to highlight something when testing I use #BADA55, it’s a rank lime green and it’s spelt BadAss so it’s easy to remember.
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#180Urban Dictionary for colors :)