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Cute little thing :) - but: A pallet is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader or other jacking device. A palette is a given, finite set of colors for the management of digital images.
Thanks! Its crazy how many little typos and issues get exposed by the HN crowd even for a tiny experiment like this :-)
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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: http…
If I went to a gallery and offered this up I'd obviously be laughed out of the place.
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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
I don't know where to begin. If I didn't know any better I'd think this was a parody.
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.
I agree that the server could do this, and for a small app like it is this wouldn't even be a big problem, however there is almost no impact on the end user and this way scaling is handled by 'better caching' and serving static pages faster.
Offloading to the client is a good thing in general, and I think there are few cases where it is possible but not the better option.
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...)
Step 1: determine IP address
Step 2: interpret the first three octets as red, green, and blue respectively
Step 3: there is no step 3.
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Considered it, but CMYK only go up to 100 in value - alpha channel could be an option though...
You can name the color too - http://chir.ag/projects/ntc/ It's not an exact match of course but I did my best to make it as close as possible.
[and for all the silly color names out there, it's actually pretty amazing how right most of the names that pop out of this tool seem... most really do capture the essence of the color.]
Second pallete shows "183" instead of "173"
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.
This way the server can serve a static cached page, and distribute the work to derive the colour palette to the clients. I agree that the server could do this, and for a small app like it is this wouldn't even be a big problem, however there is almost no impact on the end user and this way scaling is handled by 'better caching' and serving static pages faster. Offloading to the client is a good thing in general, and…
One of many implementations: http://axonflux.com/handy-rgb-to-hsl-and-rgb-to-hsv-color-mo...
I imagine you could precompute the entire 24 bit range if you really wanted.
I mean, this thing has a failure mode where it says it can't find your IP address. That makes no sense until you look at how it was implemented.
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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?
And I vehemently disagree with cormullion's comment : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239734
Consider Malevich's work : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malevich.black-square.jpg
Yes, that's in a museum. And it wasn't made "these days" either.
