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Re: Google, but for colors

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post #17

In case anyone is wondering how this works, it does a google image search and then extracts the primary color of each result. That’s why you see unexpected colors like grey for “heart”: image search returns black and white hearts.

My first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total. Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.

Right. If you do a google image search for apple, it'll show mostly grays because it's returning the Apple logo.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Nice. I tried Formula 1 constructors, and all those that I tried matched their liveries. Force India returned some pinks, Ferrari returned some reds, and McLaren some orange.

Re: Google, but for colors

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post #28

Could this be implemented by doing a google image search for whatever the user enters. Then show the average color of each image.

That's exactly how it's implemented. You can hover over the pictures' corners to show the original image.
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