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Based on the title, I imagined crawling all websites and counting how many pixels used each colour.
Ultimately, wouldn't that just see which is the most popular background color? Pixel-for-pixel the background takes up the largest percentage of screen space on most websites. Though I would also be interested to see what the most popular background colors are. My money's on white and off-white.
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Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is explicitly rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch. It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby colors. Of course, "nearby colors" depends on which axis (or axes) of the color space is/are changing, the rates of change, and what is the criterion for ordering the aspects of color. Historically, voting on colors is a strong tradition in color science. Becaus…
> Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is explicitly rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch. > It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby colors. Surely that is demonstrably false in cases where you could experimentally prove that two adjacent colors are below the voter's threshold of color discrimination.
Or to be Wittgensteinian, that’s not how “of different colors” is used in ordinary language.
In terms of additive color science, different combinations of RGB (or XYZ) light can produce the same color perception.
In part because the human visual system (green cones) has a negative response to a particular frequency band and additive light can’t have negative green values.
At the edge of current color science is accounting for tetra-chromatic perception…not to be confused with tetra-chromatic response which occurs in about 1% of humans.
Which is all to say that there’s a lot of baggage to a logical argument based on voting.
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Yeah me too.. That would have made a lot more sense than what they're doing. I'd really like to see the outcome of that. Not this random comparison.
> random comparison While certainly different individuals are going to vote on colors differently, I doubt that the aggregate results would resemble randomness.
I think it's not really relevant to select colours in a void. Colours are good for a purpose. This is especially relevant on websites. I love yellow but I would hate it when it's used for text on a white background. Stuff like that.
That would at least make it interesting to keep voting and seeing the map fill out.
I think that if there is voting, one should sort of do some type of spreading algorithm where the color you vote on, is sort of a much weaker vote for the surrounding colors. There is just too many colours, especially in this color space, and it is sort of hard for humans to really differentiate them. Thus spread out the vote based on average human visual perception differentiability capabilities. Also this color spa…
> Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too many bits on low intensity and high intensity colors. Isn’t that what the gamma is for?
https://colornames.org/ Has 17.9% colors named already.
Might work as a joke but several of those colors will be indistinguishable to human eye, yet have completely different crowd-sourced names. Or - could you ever tell the difference between "Amateur Rockstar Bright Pink" (#ff1aab) and "Pink Soul Of Heart" (#ff1bab) even if your life depended on it? The fact that 24-bit RGB can represent 16 million colors does not mean our vision is capable of telling such number of col…
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> Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is explicitly rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch. > It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby colors. Surely that is demonstrably false in cases where you could experimentally prove that two adjacent colors are below the voter's threshold of color discrimination.
To riff on Hume, all colors are indistinguishable in total darkness. Or to be Wittgensteinian, that’s not how “of different colors” is used in ordinary language. In terms of additive color science, different combinations of RGB (or XYZ) light can produce the same color perception. In part because the human visual system (green cones) has a negative response to a particular frequency band and additive light can’t have…