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Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#131
post #101

Up/down votes should be added to each individual color's own page, ie https://colornames.org/color/f9cdcb Edit: I added this suggestion through their used feedback service.

But there are the up/downvote buttons already?

Wow, my mistake. The color I submitted wasn't confirmed, but for some reason, I just didn't realise that. My bad!

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#132
post #126

Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags. The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension. The question is…

I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil

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Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's 3 non-repeating unordered words, the minimum vocabulary will need to be 256*3 = 768. Realistically you'll need an order of magnitude larger. That's a pretty large vocabulary.

That’s not right. 256 * 255 * 254

I suspect you didn't catch gp's meaning: To get to 24 bits of color info, you'd need at least 3 words of 8 bit info each. If you want these to be non-repeating and unordered that makes 256x3=768 unique words.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#135
post #101

Up/down votes should be added to each individual color's own page, ie https://colornames.org/color/f9cdcb Edit: I added this suggestion through their used feedback service.

But there are the up/downvote buttons already?

I had added that color as "Cartoon pig skin"

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#136
post #126

Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags. The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension. The question is…

I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil

> What would it take to get it ported to a better browser?

So cute, so subjective.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#137

Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.

HN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.

Write a Grease-monkey (or equivalent) script, that reads your query variable, applies the value to the top bar, and then add that parameter to all links on the page.

Optional: Then write a bookmarklet, that displays a color-picker, and reloads the tab with the changed querystring variable.

(HN web server admin might get some "scary" log file entries though, regarding an "unusual" additional QS variable)

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#138

Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.

But it's bgcolor="#ff6600"?

Both are there: https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=Hacker+News+Ora...

Although the 65 one needs to be better named "Fake Hacker News Orange" or "Hacker Fake News Orange".

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#139
post #126

Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags. The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension. The question is…

I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil

>What would it take to get it ported to a better browser?

It's waiting for review approval on the chrome webstore.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

#140
post #126

Shameless plug for color-loving people : Are all verbs blue ? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorify/ It's parsing any webpage, and coloring words based on their Part-Of-Speech tags. The idea behind is that if we let the computer pre-parse the text for us, it should incur less mental fatigue, and help visualize the structure of sentences therefore improving our reading comprehension. The question is…

I have been searching for something like this for years! Wish it wasn't Firefox-only :( What would it take to get it ported to a better browser? Here's my crack at coloring or syntax-highlighting the parts of english speech for easier analysis, but mine was a manual process: https://github.com/tomhodgins/bil

Well the first step would be to write a better browser.
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