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Generating a color spectrum for an image

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Re: Generating a color spectrum for an image

#11

This will doubtless be an unpopular comment, but the "Do not" imperative at the bottom of the page was super jarring to me. I really don't appreciate random websites trying to tell me what to do in such a direct imperative tone, and would never write like that even if it were my intention; not to mention that it doesn't actually prevent anything. Pity, because it was a nice article.

are you referring to "All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. © 2026" ?

Yes, the "Do not" imperative feels so bossy and unnecessary; the people who need to hear it don't care / won't heed it, and the rest of us were directly instructed not to do something (which we weren't even remotely interested in doing anyway) just because we happened to read a blog post all the way to the end.

I know it's a small thing but the tone really does bug me; consider if I would put a trailer to this Honestly Just Another Random Ass Comment On The Internet:

Do not reproduce this comment without permission.

Re: Generating a color spectrum for an image

#12

This will doubtless be an unpopular comment, but the "Do not" imperative at the bottom of the page was super jarring to me. I really don't appreciate random websites trying to tell me what to do in such a direct imperative tone, and would never write like that even if it were my intention; not to mention that it doesn't actually prevent anything. Pity, because it was a nice article.

(Replying to myself because the above was posted over 2 hours ago)

I was thinking about how I'd go about it, and I think first I'd Hilbert sort the colours in something like OKLab space, then generate a PDF from this using Just Noticeable Diff weights, then sample that PDF using something either uniform regular or golden ratio samples (must be monotonically increasing).

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