Very cool! :-)<p>I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here:
<a href="http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explorer/" rel="nofollow">http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explore...</a><p>TL;DR I'm using R-trees to do fast perceptual nearest neighbour color search.<p>OP, how are you doing it in this?
This thing is just <i>begging</i> for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album.<p>If you want to take this one step further, I'd love to see a Chrome plugin version of this: detect the primary colors of a given page and suggest a similarly-colored album.
It makes me happy when this sort of fun, simple app gets voted up to the front page of HN. It reminds me that my apps don't need to do a million different things but that only a couple fun/awesome functions can be elegant and useful.
Fantastic job. The darkest of albums.<p><a href="http://colorhits.com/album/407270/This+Is+Spinal+Tap" rel="nofollow">http://colorhits.com/album/407270/This+Is+Spinal+Tap</a>
OP here, Thanks for the comments. It was a very interesting project to build. To add a little background, ColorHits is using the iTunes EPF data with about 3.6 million albums available to search.
Great work. I'm working on palette determination on a project, so I'm curious- which algorithm/library did you use to parse the album covers?
Very cool tool! reminds me of this flickr color search <a href="http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/#colors=e73843,6abbd3,e84b6e;weights=33,34,33;" rel="nofollow">http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/#colors=e73843,6abbd3,e84b6...</a>