Yikes... it looks like my IP is about as good at color coordination as I am.
Was it obviously green?
Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
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Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see this as like an internet art installation. It injects art into an unexpected place/space. Finding patterns and/or meaning out of nothing is quite interesting. Is art useless and not worth executing?
Is generating a 4 color palette based of a random seed all it takes to be art? Not to say it wasn't worth executing from a personal standpoint, it was probably fun to build if nothing else, but really what possible use can anyone else get out of this?
Is putting a toilet in a gallery all it takes to be art?
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see this as like an internet art installation. It injects art into an unexpected place/space. Finding patterns and/or meaning out of nothing is quite interesting. Is art useless and not worth executing?
Is generating a 4 color palette based of a random seed all it takes to be art? Not to say it wasn't worth executing from a personal standpoint, it was probably fun to build if nothing else, but really what possible use can anyone else get out of this?
These days, 'art' is an almost meaningless term, since it has to include this:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/creed-work-no-233-p78388
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is generating a 4 color palette based of a random seed all it takes to be art? Not to say it wasn't worth executing from a personal standpoint, it was probably fun to build if nothing else, but really what possible use can anyone else get out of this?
These days, 'art' is an almost meaningless term, since it has to include this: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/creed-work-no-233-p78388
You had me at "fu". Bookmarked!
And, on a more serious note, pretty depressing.
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would not work, as stated. The search space is way too small. Simply exhaustively building a table mapping hash to IP address is tractable. This could be ameliorated by including a site-specific secret in the hashed value; I'm not comfortable calling that "secure" but it does address this particular flaw.
Yes, but given a single hash you are only able to reduce to 200 candidate IPs.
If a site specific secret is present you would not be able to do that - unless the site will act as an oracle for you and doesn't care about you making several billion requests.
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#46Neat. This kind of reminds me of something I did a while back: I had a permissions manager that let you drag and drop groups to various actions, but the color of each group was determined by hashing their the group ID into a color.
The resulting colors had no special significance, but the important point is they never changed and it let you easily visualize what was going on. I'm sure this had been done many, many times before. The difference here is that the straightforward conversion from IPs to colors means similar IPs will look very similar, whereas hashing some value to a color results in similar values looking vastly different.
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#47People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment. I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]. They all use browser variables to generate random avatars for use around the web, e.g. on blog comments. I imagine this could do something similar, and a nice colour palette is a…
I actually like my IP's color scheme. I might try to use it for something.
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#48Here's a short blog post to go with this little project we made! http://meetstrange.com/blog/pretty-ip/
I like how you blur out the IP address but it could be trivially recovered by sampling the colors :)
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#49Neat project! This got me thinking - Why are QR codes black and white? Couldn't they transmit more information if they used colors?
Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
#50People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment. I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]. They all use browser variables to generate random avatars for use around the web, e.g. on blog comments. I imagine this could do something similar, and a nice colour palette is a…
Its not pointless at all - I can think of situation where this idea would be very useful:
When looking at client (request) logs full with IP addresses, the colorful visual cue would give you an idea which requests group to a single client.