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Google, but for colors
- zouhair 8y agoI don't know why but this reminded of Guess-The-Google[0] where you get a series of images and you have to guess the search word that generate them. Sadly, I couldn't find any playable version of it. [0]: https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/guess-the-google https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/guess-the-google
- beardyw 8y agoI want to take all the main colours in my house and get a word back! Someone work on it now.
- divanvisagie 8y agoMVP: return "beardyw's house"
- martyvis 8y agoIf you are really looking for colours and palettes with a theme you are much better off with the groupthink at sites like https://www.colourlovers.com/ https://www.colourlovers.com/
- T3RMINATED 8y agowell thats stupid.
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- cjohansson 8y agoCrashes half of the time, I guess it did not scale enough to handle Hacker News
- rawoke083600 8y agoAnyone typed in penis yet ?
- PokemonNoGo 8y agoIs your backend doing a google search? Wont you get blocked...
- spazzpp2 8y agoIt cannot do "lego" But maybe it's just hug of death..
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- spazzpp2 8y agookay. "lego" looks like "google"
- V-2 8y agoNice Easter egg (I assume) for "chess" ;)
- daltonlp 8y agohttp://www.colr.org/ http://www.colr.org/ does something very similar.
- stevewilhelm 8y agoqueries: ennui, glee, barack obama, donald trump, puppies, kittens, paris, kolkata, yosemite, death valley the machine has lots to learn.
- splatzone 8y agoThis is really cool, nice work! I tried 'horse' (https://picular.co/horse https://picular.co/horse) and I got some interesting results, some sky and grassy colours as well. Where do you get the photos from, and will searches give the same results every time or do they vary?
- 21 8y agoIt seems to return blue for pretty much anything ("cat", "man"), maybe because of blue sky?
- rileyteige 8y agohttps://picular.co/love https://picular.co/love returned a nice color palette pretty neat to search for the planets as well (e.g. https://picular.co/jupiter https://picular.co/jupiter) I also like that the favicon changes colors. Nice touch.
- afo 8y agoLooks similar to https://picular.co/hate https://picular.co/hate
- suyash 8y agoLoved the idea and well implemented. Is it open source, like to add a feature to it. Could you also care to share about the underlying algorithm ?
- teolandon 8y agoSeems to be doing a google image search and take the average color. Meh. EDIT: My "meh" is not bashing on the author or anything, at least they actually made a project, all I've done this past while is browse HN and make half-baked terminal apps. It was more of a let-down because I thought this was a very cool idea and was interested in a sophisticated implementation of it.
- suyash 8y agoAhh much simpler than I thought (fancy NLP and such :)
- person_of_color 8y agoMeh indeed.
- tomcam 8y agoNeat! No greens returned in https://picular.co/christmas https://picular.co/christmas but OTOH I just created palettes called Retro and Grunge for a recent project and they were quite similar to Picular’s choices
- rileyteige 8y agohttps://picular.co/12+days+of+Christmas https://picular.co/12+days+of+Christmas gets a couple greens
- felideon 8y agoInteresting. Same for "cash" or "money".
- advisedwang 8y agodollar does get green, perhaps it's just not US-centric?
- Ekuju 8y agoConsidering this apparently uses Google images, it would probably be improved if you add "_ color" to the end of every search. For christmas this seems to be the case.
- DonHopkins 8y agoI found some nice greens: https://picular.co/marijuana https://picular.co/marijuana -- Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! (There, I said it.)
- dbomhof 8y agoBrilliant and colorful idea! Really love this!
- jen729w 8y agoI'm making sounds in my throat like I'm a cat.
- jfarlow 8y agoVery fun. I put in some scientific proteins, and it spits out their common fluorescence staining colors: ZO1 (stain tight-junctions, often blue): https://picular.co/zo1 https://picular.co/zo1 (see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1399&bih=908&ei=0_WGW7mIOaff0gKI6KGgDw&q=zo1&oq=zo1&gs_l=img.3..0l10.812.1160.0.1384.3.3.0.0.0.0.70.195.3.3.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.3.194....0.IWkvy0stiWA https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1399&bi...) hN1 (a protein usually stained red or green with GFP or mCherry): https://picular.co/hn1 https://picular.co/hn1 (see https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/HN1-Antibody-Polyclonal/PA5-63771 https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/HN1-Antibody-P...)
- imkevinxu 8y agoThis is SUPER DUPER cool!
- shawn 8y agoIn case anyone is wondering how this works, it does a google image search and then extracts the primary color of each result. That’s why you see unexpected colors like grey for “heart”: image search returns black and white hearts.
- starshadowx2 8y agoMy first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total. Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.
- bryanrasmussen 8y agomy search for apple in google returns only results somehow related to apple the company, so it would seem this is google, but for colors.
- shawn 8y agoRight. If you do a google image search for apple, it'll show mostly grays because it's returning the Apple logo.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoTry "apples instead", all red and a single lime green. It's amusing having a background in software development and this is the first thought I had. (like many here I am sure would) I don't know exactly "why" this works, but knowing that it likely would before trying. (like hitting refresh when your web app barfs) Someone else suggested cause of the apple logo... and it seems they are likely right. :) https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&tbm=isch Shows the "holes" in this method.
- tyingq 8y agoYep. Works pretty well for terms that return highly relevant images. Try "baby poop", for example.
- anonytrary 8y agoIt's funny because if you scroll through Google images fast enough, you will catch glimpse of monochromatic placeholder images for images that haven't loaded yet. The placeholder image seems to be the average color (maybe with some object boxing to reduce contributions from backgrounds and such) inside the image. This website is kind of the opposite in that it presents the placeholder color as if it were the content itself.
- noelwelsh 8y agoThat the icon changes color is a nice touch. I can see this being useful in generative art.
- izzydata 8y agoIs the site getting overloaded with traffic? Nothing returns any results. Edit: Left a search running for 10 minutes and got some colors.
- Invictus0 8y agoDoesn't work for me: the boxes never load. I searched for potato.
- lucasmullens 8y agoCool! Reminds me of xkcd's color survey results: https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
- sonnyblarney 8y agoWould be nice instead of just colours it gets a selection of palettes.
- spiralx 8y agoYou can try the one of these sites for that: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=love https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=love http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/?keyword=love http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/?keyword=love There are some other sites that do similar searches as well, just can't remember them off the top of my head :)
- crobertsbmw 8y agoNot loading anything for me.
- divanvisagie 8y agoI was super slow for me. Wonder what is going on in the background?
- deathcow 8y agoKeeps showing Broken Website Gray now
- ape4 8y agoCould this be implemented by doing a google image search for whatever the user enters. Then show the average color of each image.
- scrollaway 8y agoThat's exactly how it's implemented. You can hover over the pictures' corners to show the original image.
- Oless 8y agoI think he means averaging over the extracted colors
- unfunco 8y agoNice. I tried Formula 1 constructors, and all those that I tried matched their liveries. Force India returned some pinks, Ferrari returned some reds, and McLaren some orange.
- cozzyd 8y agoSearching for quarks or gluons did not result in colorless combinations. This website clearly doesn't conform to QCD.
- ISL 8y agoNeither quarks nor gluons (in general) are colorless. One should object, however, that the site returns colors for 'hadron' and 'meson' :).
- test6554 8y agoI typed fall colors and got a bunch of shades of orange, tans, yellows and browns. One blue tile in there as well...
- youeseh 8y agoI think it works. I looked for "fog in san francisco" and it gave me a bunch of shimmering gray boxes that all look the same.
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- irrational 8y agoI searched blue and it returned some tan and green colors (but not bluish green or greenish blue). I searched naked, expecting skin colors (I was wondering if it would tend to show "white" skin colors instead of a range of skin colors). The results were... strange.
- joe5150 8y agoif you search "skin" you get more or less anticipated results. I think it's using safesearch-filtered results, so "naked" isn't likely to return any actual naked bodies.
- fosco 8y agoI really like this! Searching for 'sea foam green' gave me exactly what I thought. That being said, personally, I would prefer something original instead of "Google, but for colors.". just my two cents.
- reificator 8y agohttps://picular.co/the+matrix https://picular.co/the+matrix gives the expected greens, but not as the first result sadly.
- Retroity 8y agoI love this! It's really fun, and will be really useful for when I'm making something and can't find a specific color.
- tptacek 8y agoYou can type nonsense words into this --- words for which Google will say no page in its entire corpus has a match --- and get color palettes back. What's it actually doing?
- bryanrasmussen 8y agowell I typed in config and got nothing.
- kasey_junk 8y agoMachine learning
- chrbarrol 8y agoI was kinda disappointed when I realized when you search it seems to basically only do a simple image search (ala Google) and return the primary color of the individual images, as can be seen by hovering over the small icon in each color result. I would not really call that machine learning, since it's basically an image search engine with a color filter.
- tptacek 8y agoIf that's what it's doing, how is it giving me colors for nonsense words? I wonder if it's just automatically accepting the spelling suggestion Google provides for searches?
- itsarnavb 8y agoIt's probably using Google custom search. I think that's the only way you can actually get Google search results as an API. Perhaps custom search displays differing results?
- hayksaakian 8y agoYou can scrape google.com with a lot of awkward ban evading. The fact that it works for non existing search results shows that it's ML
- logfromblammo 8y agoI tried searching for "picular.co", and to my disappointment it did not melt down the website.
- edgarvaldes 8y agoInteresting to see #0432CA for "human", and #3CA4D4 for "person".
- rainbowmverse 8y agoI put in bisexual. It returned those colors, but also returned the colors for the pansexual pride flag. https://picular.co/bisexual https://picular.co/bisexual I wonder what kind of magic is going on under the hood.
- J5892 8y agoI like how the first result for black is #040404.
- miguelmota 8y agoI put in "macbook" and it didn't return gray or black. Think the machine learning needs some tweaking
- fbelzile 8y agoVery interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride https://picular.co/pride It might be ordering the results by hue.
- DonHopkins 8y agoAlso quite vivid: https://picular.co/neon https://picular.co/neon Not so vivid: https://picular.co/noir https://picular.co/noir
- jee1shi 8y agoSome nice colours as well: https://picular.co/pastel https://picular.co/pastel
- lifthrasiir 8y agoGiven there is no original picture overlay in that result, it actually seems to be hardcoded.
- nyrulez 8y agoNo offense, but I expected more orange: https://picular.co/trump https://picular.co/trump
- jameslk 8y agoApparently the colors come from the images in Google Images search results. In the bottom right of each color is a button that reveals the image where the color is sourced from.
- 2_listerine_pls 8y agoAny idea on how they obtain the underlying images? It seems like a huge pre-trained database.
- haberdasher 8y agohttps://picular.co/devastating+public+breakup https://picular.co/devastating+public+breakup
- yeukhon 8y agoWorks. https://picular.co/oscarhealth https://picular.co/oscarhealth https://picular.co/yeukhon https://picular.co/yeukhon
- DonHopkins 8y agoI typed in "Trump News" and I got a bunch of Fake Colors, none of which were anything like the correct shade of orange. They're shadow banning orange colors and right wing red colors, only showing dark left wing blue shades!!! Why are they censoring all the warm positive Trump colors??? All colors matter!!!
- enriquto 8y agoLooking for "orca" I was expecting black and white, but got only blue.
- bkohlmann 8y agoI just tried "love" and "hate" - the first three results were very similar shades of red.
- labster 8y agoLove and hate are pretty similar, both are passionate emotions. We just need to remember that, and then it's easy to choose the right one.
- keithnz 8y agowell, I just tried https://picular.co/hackernews https://picular.co/hackernews which gives lots of orange, but doesn't seem to give me the color I get when I use a color picker on the top bar of FD6423
- avighnay 8y agoA very good example how engaging and useful a simple idea can be! Now the source images are also shown in the results! I do not think it uses any AI/ML, the beauty is in the simplicity of the solution. Awesome!
- asafira 8y agoIt seems to me like when I type in company names, I don't get the exact colors they use in their branding...
- tom4000 8y agoDoesn't work out of the box with tracking protection in browsers enabled. So I don't see any color and I guess I don't have to.