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Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by rachelbythebay »

This seems to run as a script in your browser, and then calls out to some helper to get your IP address. The original server (the one which hands you the script in the first place) should have your IP address already, and in theory, could create the page on the fly. That would make it work even with NoScript or similar in force.

I guess client-side is the way most people do things these days.

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by rdl »

It would be nice if there were a less trivial mapping of IP address to color -- something where ASN boundaries mattered, and maybe where netmask got taken into account. (so a bunch of users on /29s and /30s within the same IP block got related but different (and ideally distinguishable) colors.

It would still be a canonical IP to color mapping, but it wouldn't be as literal a mapping of 32-bit address into 32-bit color.

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by meej »

Neat! My place of work has a surprisingly attractive IP address palette.

It would be cool if you could specify an IP address; I'd like to see what the IP for my hosted VM looks like. (I suppose I could set up an SSH tunnel if I am really curious...)

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by raylu »

stephengillie wrote: post #49

Neat project! This got me thinking - Why are QR codes black and white? Couldn't they transmit more information if they used colors?

Different cameras and software will do different kinds of automatic white balance correction but nobody will screw it up so bad that you can't differentiate black from white.

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by ibudiallo »

cormullion wrote: post #43
pdenya wrote: post #35

Earlier 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

Nowadays being alive is art.

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by quarterto »

cormullion wrote: post #43
pdenya wrote: post #35

Earlier 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

Art is anything that someone somewhere could claim is not art.

Re: Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

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Post by barking »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #44
cormullion wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Being depressed by this is a bit like being depressed by pop because you think only classical music is music. He's not stopping anyone from doing better art. I wouldn't be into his art particularly but neither am I into the sort of paintings you see in national galleries either. Really it wouldn't surprise me if he turned around one day and said the whole thing was a big joke. He practically does just that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6syZr_me_Bg
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