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D3 - Languages and Color

#1

Post by doleson » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

D3 - Languages and Color
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Re: D3 - Languages and Color

#2

Post by kristjan » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

Don't forget XKCD's take! http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

#3

Post by doleson » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

kristjan wrote: post #2

Don't forget XKCD's take! http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

That's pretty cool, we definitely had some pretty interesting name submissions in our color study as well.

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by stephengillie » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 9:13 PM UTC

The ways humans stratify a small part of the RF spectrum into named colors is a topic that keeps popping up. What does it tell us?

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by chrismealy » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 9:20 PM UTC

kristjan wrote: post #2

Don't forget XKCD's take! http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Thanks. This is exactly what I wanted to see after reading the original post:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by batgaijin » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 9:30 PM UTC

What has changed since this was posted?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988556

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by eurleif » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 10:39 PM UTC

What's the deal with the "English translation" for English? Sometimes it's just the English name with adjectives removed, but other times it adds different adjectives, or changes the name completely.

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by doleson » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 10:53 PM UTC

eurleif wrote: post #7

What's the deal with the "English translation" for English? Sometimes it's just the English name with adjectives removed, but other times it adds different adjectives, or changes the name completely.

We should've been more clear on that - the English translation is the shortest string length submission we received for that color, while the color name (for English) is the longest (we figured the longest submission would be the most interesting). We only had two different submissions for English, for all other languages we put native language and the English translation.

There are some hidden gems in there one contributor named "Vacation At The Seaside Blue" while another called it "sky," as well as "Bright Endless Meadows Green," while another called that color "green."

You can also download the full dataset on our blog.

Re: D3 - Languages and Color

#9

Post by vanpelt » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 12:13 AM UTC

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Re: D3 - Languages and Color

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Post by vhf » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 12:37 AM UTC

Please as soon as every RGB code is reliably named, release the data / build a userscript / browser extension / photoshop plugin.

I could really use one of these, and so do every other colorblind !