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Lexadecimal - colour codes with meaning

68 pointsby jaladaabout 14 years ago

11 comments

gjm11about 14 years ago
Lovely!<p>I think it would be improved by having a cleverer colour-based sorting algorithm. At the moment, you choose one parameter (H, S or V) to sort by, and the others have no effect at all, and it looks a bit too random.<p>Here's one toy example of what I think is a more natural-looking order of colours: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/xjh97.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/xjh97.png</a> (I took red&#60;&#60;1, green&#60;&#60;2 and blue, and interleaved their bits). Better still might be to sort by position along a Hilbert-curve traversal of the RGB cube or HSL space or something, but I couldn't work out how to do that in 5 minutes so didn't bother :-).
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eroppleabout 14 years ago
Kinda interesting looking, but why? What's the point? I hate to be the guy who says "I don't get it," but...I don't get it.
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yuvadamabout 14 years ago
That's the most beautiful thing I've seen today.
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romeyabout 14 years ago
Wow, I could definitely see these adding another level of depth to Alternate Reality Games / Puzzles (not to mention computer art). Beautiful design, as well.
bgravesabout 14 years ago
I really like the "I want a T-shirt!" button. I wonder if those button-clicks are being tracked or only emailed requests. I think tracking both would be smart.
jenniartabout 14 years ago
Haha, I'm going to start referring to colors this way in my office. It would be fun to pair colors together as a sort of designer inside joke. Like design a celebrity site with "scolds" and "celebs." Anyway, I hope they get the t-shirt thing going. That's a cool idea.
zithabout 14 years ago
Speaking of hexadecimal numbers that mean something. Does anyone know any good numbers that stand out both in hex and in decimal? Something that would make people suspect it is a number used for debugging.
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ntoshevabout 14 years ago
Palette-sentences, anyone?
rgloverabout 14 years ago
Genius. Not sure why this hasn't been done before. I can see using this in future projects.
pluies_publicabout 14 years ago
I love it. The basic idea is beautifully simple, and it's very nicely done.
zemabout 14 years ago
reminds me of my brief stint in frontend web development, when i would sneak in at least one #c0ffee-coloured element in every project.