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Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
- basisword 1y agoNice. Hard to generate an unpleasant palette with this at all.
- onli 1y agoDoesn't seem to work on Firefox - I tried with adblocker and tracking protection disabled. Console complains: Uncaught SyntaxError: The requested module 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.7.0/es/highlight.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.7.0/e...' doesn't provide an export named: 'default'
- nemomarx 1y ago>"poline" is an enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates. Its methodology, defying conventional color science, is steeped in the esoteric knowledge of the early 20th century. This magical technology defies explanation, drawing lines between anchors to produce visually striking and otherworldly palettes. It is an indispensable tool for the modern generative sorcerer, and a delight for the eye I'm not totally sure I understand this intro - what's different here compared to normal color science palette makers? I do like the visual presentation and animation a lot though.
- caseyohara 1y agoWhat don't you understand? It defies conventional color science and is steeped in the esoteric knowledge of the early 20th century. It is a very nice palette generator, but I really dislike all the talk of magic/mysticism/sorcery/witchcraft. It's a dang color generator, ease up on the dungeon master language.
- macrocosmos 1y agoIt defies explanation. This is followed up by an explantation.
- cardiffspaceman 1y agoDefied unsuccessfully.
- nemomarx 1y agoIt feels a little bit ai generated there, or maybe just padded out marketing copy - more adjectives and superlatives than I'd expect from a technical site at least. Telling you how to call it to get a "mesmerizing" palette for example I can handle some purple mysticism prose but I did want like a comparison of a few palettes from this polar system vs some traditional plane ones. If the creator reads this thread that's my note
- epiccoleman 1y agoon the other hand, i like the "theme" - i'm a sucker for that mix of "wizardry" metaphor with programming stuff. I'm reminded for instance of this fun little post: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
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- qmmmur 1y agoWhy do you feel so strongly that someone shouldn't invent a tool/doohickey/fun experience that isn't purely based around being a utility? The creator of this isn't taking away from the plethora of already available "conventional colour science" orientated tools.
- koprocezar 1y agoNice one!
- jonathaneunice 1y agoIt's cool. Though I am unsure if I am a sufficiently modern generative sorcerer to appreciate its eldritch, enigmatic nature.
- mock-possum 1y agoWhat a fun project! I feel like you really bury the lede in terms of what kinds of palettes are generateable- the first interactive demo at the top of page mostly only makes bruises, but later on your get full on saturated rainbows!
- basisword 1y agoWow, I didn't even realise you could scroll down! Much more flexible than I first thought.
- rambambram 1y agoHats off! I never experienced a colorcombo generator that only turned up good palettes.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoNicely done, but I'm a bit puzzled by all the alchemical stuff (which, to be fair, is probably the point).
- bogdanoff_2 1y agoI'm impressed by the naming of colors at the very end.
- meodai 1y agothanks! Collecting them has been my hobby for the past few years: https://github.com/meodai/color-names https://github.com/meodai/color-names
- altairprime 1y agoPreviously on HN (2 years ago) with creator’s replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34662722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34662722
- pseudocomposer 1y agoSuper cool! If the author/creator happens to be reading, I’d suggest that, when the user is at the top of the page (ie on first load), the default demo wheel’s should animate between a few different curves. At first glance (before scrolling down), it looks somewhat primitive, and less interesting than it really is.
- kazinator 1y agoIt makes sense. When you have complementary colors in the palette, you need to include more darks so that in your design you can separate the two. This is achieved because the line has pass near the centre.
- Teever 1y agoThe favicon updates to match the palette. That's a nice touch.
- stevenhuang 1y agoWhat an obnoxiously unclickable interaction on mobile. A very strange choice of ux for something that insists to be so prominent on my screen that follows my scroll, yet clicking on the palette does nothing.
- james_marks 1y agoThis is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long, long time.
- meodai 1y agothanks! that means a lot
- meodai 1y agoTo those not into the mythical vibe: I totally get it. I stumbled onto something that looked good by accident and thought it’d be fun to lean into the mystical theme — especially since there’s no real science or theory behind it (that I know of). Mostly, I just wanted an excuse to build a fun website around it. And to everyone else — thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it!
- gnulinux 1y agoI love the "old internet" vibe with the new internet look. I think it's a very creative idea, I wouldn't mind the haters too too much. I love it!
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- Daub 1y ago> especially since there’s no real science or theory behind it (that I know of). The literature on hue harmony is fuzzy, but there are a few gems. Check out Matsuda [1] who tracked the colors of what his female students were wearing, and tried to identify any principles informing their color choice. My criticism of him is that he plotted hue distribution on the RGB color wheel. The RYB wheel would have been a far better choice. His paper is in Japanese, but is summarized in multiple places. Below [2] is a link to 2 pages from a lecture I gave which summarizes his findings. I'm sure you also know of Kuehni's classic tome on color spaces [3]. A fun and informative read. There has been no research on hue antagonism (which is the idea that underpins complementary pairs). This is crazy, as it would be a very easy subject to investigate. To me it is obvious that there is a special relationship between antagonistic pairs above the fact that they mix to neutral. Supporting this is the fact that Leondro DaVinci documented this relationship even before hue circle was invented [4]! As for the mystical dimension of color harmony... this has been assumed since the dawn of color science. Newton himself believed that there was seven colors in his hue circle for no other reason than this was a spiritually significant value [5]. Itten [6], Goethe [7] and Kandinsky [8] all absolutely believed in the spiritual dimension of color. Personally, I believe that their work has had nothing but a destructive impact on how artists and designers use color. It is wildly inconsistent, vague and often plain wrong. [1] Matsuda: Color Design. Asakura Shoten (in Japanese). (1995) [2] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4ac93etjyg0z5y2ouq5ge/matsuda.pdf?rlkey=qjakg5pms4v4lppcr0ogx7y31&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4ac93etjyg0z5y2ouq5ge/matsuda... [3] Kuehni, R.: Color Space and its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present. Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken (2003) [4] Leonardo da Vinci, Trans. J. F. Rigaud, A Treatise on Painting (London: J.B. Nichols & Son, 1835). [5] Matt Chamings “Why are there seven colours in a rainbow?” New Scientist, Last Word, 2021. [6] Johannes Itten, The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1961). [7] J. W. v. Goethe, Goethe's Colour Theory, Trans. C. L. Eastlake (London: John Murray, 1840). [8] Wassily Kandinsky, Trans. Michael Sadler, Concerning the spiritual in art (Penguin UK, 2024), p. 59.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoI'd like to configure my editor to use something like this to generate a unique color palette for the syntax highlighting for each project so that if I have files from multiple projects open at the same time they look different. Maybe base it on a hash of the git remote.
- coretx 1y agoHe got me until I read "npm install".
- andyfeliciotti 1y agoMeodai is the color king! Fantastic tool
- kamranjon 1y agoFor those like me who didn't get it at first - make sure to scroll down...
- drewbeck 1y agoOn my iPhone the line curves as I move the dots around, but on my laptop (running Arc) the line stays straight. Some bug, or am I missing something? ETA: okay I can get arcs working by changing the arc settings! Getting different default behavior on the two platforms tho.
- Asraelite 1y agoWhy /ˈpɔːlaɪn/ and not /ˈpoʊlaɪn/ or /ˈpɑlaɪn/? Seems like an unnatural way to pronounce it, given the spelling.