Comments on: Color combinatorics

Color combinatorics

Gyan — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:46:11 -0800

ColorCell: finding the most popular color combinations.

By: circe

circe — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:46:19 -0800

*gasp* Even as a person who dresses mannequins during the day and designs web pages at night... That site is painfully metro. I love it!

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:42:57 -0800

i like this one. despite the fact that 90% of the things in my house are green, brown is actually my favorite color - has been ever since i first showed a color preference as a wee baby.

By: JollyWanker

JollyWanker — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:34:08 -0800

Conceptually, this is fun, although I wish there was a better way to view the cubes for voting - that one big long page makes them all blend together in these old eyes...

By: gregor-e

gregor-e — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:44:41 -0800

They really need to crossbreed on finer-grained attributes, like relative brightness or color difference between adjacent colors, rather than whole colors. The current popular cell is four shades of blue. If it were mutated into a cell with four shades of red, that might be a contender. But to simply take these four coordinated shades of blue and hope that interposing a garish green from another cell will make it more popular is just not likely to work.

By: mokujin

mokujin — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:45:41 -0800

This is so much fun. Thanks.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:47:35 -0800

Great fun! It's fascinating to see what color combos people prefer. I was actually pretty surprised to see a shades-of-purple cell as the most popular (at this point, anyway); I thought most people weren't too crazy about purple. On preview, I see gregor-e is calling it "blue". Hmm, it shows up as purple to me on two different monitors. ??

By: salmacis

salmacis — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:05:13 -0800

I would prefer the cubes to have more pixels. You can't do a lot with 2x2. If it was 4x4 there would be much more scope for interesting combinations.

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:26:55 -0800

taz: They're shades of purple with blue leanings. ; ) But anyway, I'm one of those people who is crazy about purple.

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:37:32 -0800

I thought most people weren't too crazy about purple oh that's just the idiot homeowners on "changing rooms". the rest of the world loves purple just fine. i don't see what the big fun is about this colour cell thing... so you pick your faves, then what...? you see what the top colours are... that's all...? it just sort of lays there, really.

By: circe

circe — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:34:22 -0800

My Colorcell is purdy...

By: jaronson

jaronson — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:42:24 -0800

Only three cells created today.