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Show HN: Wonder Color – Text to Color, Everything is Supported (vitovan.com)
19 points by VitoVan on Oct 1, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



Ignoring the advice of the app, I inputted a bunch of startup/company names, and it was surprisingly accurate. In fact, it was a bit more concise than http://www.colorfyit.com/

I tried apple, it was red, then I tried apple computers, and it was more cobalt/grey, very cool.

Facebook was solid, Hacker News and Y combinator were a bit off, but close enough, and slashdot was spot on, so was VLC.

edit: given the description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309209 it makes a lot of sense :)


Thank you, I've changed the instructions follow by your comment.

So nice you are!


I enter text, it thinks for a minute, and displays random colors. What is this supposed to be doing exactly?


The code is on github: https://github.com/VitoVan/wonder-color/

Essentially:

* Bing image search for the phrase entered

* Downloads first result from Bing and saves to disk

* Your browser then loads the downloaded image

* http://jariz.github.io/vibrant.js/ is then used to pick "prominent colors" from the image

* These are then the swatches displayed

Vibrant is a port of Android Palette (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/g...), which specifically extracts colors it calls: "Vibrant", "Vibrant Dark", "Vibrant Light", "Muted", "Muted Dark", and "Muted Light".

I think this is why it also seems to create colors that don't appear to be related at times. I found the colors returned when searching for "black" and "white" particularly bizarre. "white" for example, gets what looks like a pure white image, but then has cyan and purple swatches: http://i.imgur.com/zlObSsB.png


Yeah, I saw the link to GitHub...

I guess my point was that the OP will have better luck promoting his work if he gives people a clue about what they're looking at, and some brief instructions on how to use it.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to drop everything and dig through your source code just to figure out how to use your web page or WTF you're even trying to do.


Very sorry about this, I've changed the description under the page and says: "Try inputs like 'ycombinator' or 'facebook', or even 'doraemon'. Everything is supported, especially logos. ".

I think these words may work better than "I feel sorrow", and thanks for your comments, they make me realize that a good instruction means a lot.


Sorry about that. I think it's time to change my hosting service now.




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