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Results of XKCD Color Survey
- patio11 16y agoFascinating and useful in a practical manner. (I process color words a lot better than I do either hex values or 2D/3D color pickers. Control-F, evergreen. Yay.)
- ableal 16y agoThe 'cube faces' map (http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png ) is quite useful. Data, large and huge image links included in post. I see no reason for the qualms in putting it in the shop as a poster. (I also contributed a few answers.) P.S. A few years ago, Tim Bray took a whack at slicing through the RGB color cube: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/19/RGBPlane http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/19/RGBPlane
- kevinh 16y agoI'm surprised that men and women appear to largely have the same range of name for colors - certainly not what society has led me to believe. However, I would have liked to see the percentage of each gender who participated in the survey.
- char 16y agoThis is both hilarious and really interesting. I cannot stop laughing about the one someone named 'velociraptor cloaca'.
- amk 16y ago"A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids." hehehe..
- Herald_MJ 16y ago"Naming" colours is really a lot harder than it sounds. As the differences between colours become less significant, it gets really difficult. As an interesting follow-up - this is a 'Munsell Hue Test', the aim is to order the colours by hue: http://spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk http://spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk
- ableal 16y agoThanks for the reminder - that 'Munsell Hue Test' is both interesting and fairly hard. I think I've seen discussed (mostly scores ;-) at Reddit, http://www.reddit.com/domain/spectralcolor.com http://www.reddit.com/domain/spectralcolor.com
- CoryMathews 16y ago"I weep for my gender." - yeah me to.