MetaFilter posts tagged with colors

RunMan: Race Around the World, donationware pc platformer

The Devil Tesla — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:47:22 -0800

RunMan: Race Around the World is a donationware PC platformer made of bright colors and public domain folk, blues and jazz. The trailers (final and preview) are made of happiness. The download page is here. (via RPS) The game plays kind of like Sonic the Hedgehog but with two buttons instead of one (charge and jump) and charge is the one you use to kill baddies (and also to bounce off walls!). To get a good score, and also to survive the boss chases, you have to run as fast as you can through a level without stopping. One of the game's developers, Tom Sennett, also made When the bomb goes off, a game where everybody's got one last thing to do before they go. The other developer, Matt Thorson, made some cool games too, like the previously mentioned An Untitled Story (direct download link here). Previously on MeFi there was Archagon's big list of free 2d for the PC. More recently there has been Spelunky, Randy Balma Municipal Abortionist, Journey to the Center of the Earth and a whole bunch I'm probably forgetting.

Patterns for the Color Blind

netbros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:44:59 -0800

About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a color vision test to see where you stand. 50 facts about color blindness.

Colorshift, a flash game

boo_radley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:50:12 -0800

Colorshift is an interesting twist on Simon Tatham's Net game. Rather than creating a network to a single "power" node, you have to manage multiple colors, and mixing colors in crafty and devious ways.

Chroma Circuit

boo_radley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:59:01 -0800

Chroma Circuit a color matching game for you to enjoy. Each level has you matching facets on squares or triangles, playing against a par move. The rules are simple, but complexity ramps up fast.

Where feather colors come from.

metastability — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:52:51 -0800

"Unlike virtually every other feather color, no pigment turns feathers blue. We've known that for decades. Instead, it's long been thought that a layer of cells on blue birds' feathers reflected light at blue wavelengths, similar to the phenomenon that makes the sky blue." Now, however, scientists have another explanation. An interesting article about where birds' colors come from. See also interference.

color is relative

nickyskye — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:24 -0800

Color Is Relative, pretty and interesting eye candy created by Gabriel Mott, is a website dedicated to showing luminosity achieved through simple color combinations. On the site, the image is interactive. By moving the mouse over a single swatch the background color of the page will change to the same color. Seeing Things: Color is Relative on Facebook. Gabe's blog, FunkyEnough."In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."-Josef Albers Video that explains halation and how color is relative.

Different, that's how.

allkindsoftime — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:11:18 -0800

How do things look to colorblind people? Colour Lovers (Prev: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - all more useful to those who aren't colorblind) offers some popular websites and iconic art, As Seen By The Color Blind. Luckily humans are smart and have created technology like the Color Blind Web Page Filter. Prev. Wiki.

Raw umber is just the beginning...

blahblahblah — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:20:25 -0800

Colors have many names. The online color thesaurus will recognize 20,000 of them (and let you see which is most popular). You can also browse a page of colors and associated names (yes, "goose turd" and "dead Spaniard" were once common color names). Of course, the most popular color names probably come from our childhoods. For those looking for more colors, some cities are also associated with colors, as the beautiful pictures will attest. And each religion has its own color scheme (Shinto, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity). Meanwhile, MoMA looks at the evolution of color in modern art.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid! Dye instead.

taz — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:27:19 -0800

Dyeing with Kool-Aid basic how-to. The best thing is the color chart. A good idea for a party, maybe? As usual, the folks at Flickr have got the goods: Kool-Aid dyed yarns in the Hand-dyed pool [1], [2], and the Yarn Porn pool, [1], [2]. And if you're one of those people who just hates to do things the easy way? Multi-colored custom yarn with Kool-Aid tutorial part 1 and part 2.

Candy for your brain

JimmyJames — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:58:06 -0800

Surf your music. Audio surfer is a new game that uses .mp3 files to create racetracks of musical goodness. If guitar hero and F-Zero had a love child, this would be it.

Boop. Uh Oh. Ha Ha.

dobbs — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:02:31 -0800

UNIQLO
It's a grid. You play with it. (flash)

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

bijou — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:46:58 -0800

COLOURlovers blog - science, design, art, culture, travel - you name it, they can relate it back to color. And yes, they spell it with a 'u.'

select a color

nickyskye — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:29:37 -0800

"Being a typical guy, I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app, Name That Color, where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color." Innovated by MeFite chime.

Sexy pixels.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:52:14 -0800

Digital Artform is a fascinating resource for those interested in 3D graphics, digital painting, and the like. How about turning 2D stills into 3D animations, the truth about motion blur and colour mixing, or outlines in action? Also, a recipe for making your own Viewmaster reels, and the politics of colour saturation.

This post is dressed in blue

daksya — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:10:16 -0800

To invoke Fast and the Furious: It's not how you play the game that matters, it's the color of your uniform

Do you have this in blue?

kindle — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:04:36 -0800

Etsy.com A colorful new way to shop. For those of you who don't know what you want, but know exactly what color you want it in.

Red wins!

goatdog — Fri, 20 May 2005 10:54:56 -0800

Scientists have declared that red outfits give otherwise evenly matched athletes an advantage. Could this explain the history of success of the Red Wings, or last year's World Series victory of the Red Sox, or the 1970s dominance of the Reds? Uhh, most likely not. The nameless red-shirted Star Trek crewmembers could not be reached for comments.

Seeing orange.

etc — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:54:41 -0800

Seeing ~~red~~ orange. Can a company 'own' a colour?

Astrology Pantone Style

Orb — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:58:55 -0800

What happens when you mix one part color and one part astrology? You get Pantone Birthday Colors.

choosing colours for web pages

reklaw — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:45:59 -0800

"Whether it is an impressionist masterpiece, or just wallpaper, if you take the colour juxtapositions and their proportions from nature, you won't go far wrong." Choosing colours for web pages.

Color Scheme

Feisty — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:45:46 -0800

Color Scheme Adjust Hue, Brightness, Saturation, Scheme and considerations for Visual Anomalies.

Smelling Colors, Hearing numbers

phylum sinter — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:13:38 -0800

"Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity. About four years ago, however, we and others began to uncover brain processes that could account for synesthesia. " This article from Scientific American seems to be turning heads around the Psychology Department at U of M [Michigan]. It's got me going too. I've seen real connections between color and sound before, stone sober. Could there be something to all this?

grabbingsand — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:24:28 -0800

you know, you're right... it really does look like my morning coffee. but wait just a minute, didn't we say it was more of a blue-green Tidy-Bowl kind of hue? now i am all confused. good thing i didn't go through with that "paint my house the color of space" idea...

Holden — Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:40:19 -0800

The new money will be called NexGen™
The Treasury and Federal Reserve make it official: Starting in 2003, U.S. currency will have pretty colors. But they don't say which colors! I say we MeFis oughta lift our voices high with suggestions on what colors our $100, $50, $20 and $10 bills should be.
Is anyone else creeped out that they call the money "NexGen"? It sounds so ... Orwellian.

Irontom — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 07:01:57 -0800

Most Valuable Object in the World The Supreme Purple Star - as it is being called - is a deep purple diamond, turning to crimson when rotated in the light. Diamonds come in a rainbow of colors and are called "fancies" in the trade. Some are beautiful, others less so. This one is the only one of it's kind, and has been pronounced "priceless". The speculation, of course, is that the owner is looking to sell it.