I tried '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?
Seems 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.
Neat! No greens returned in 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
In 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.
My 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.
Try "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. :)
It'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.
Nice. 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.
I 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.
if 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.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 173 ms ] threadI tried '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?
pretty neat to search for the planets as well (e.g. https://picular.co/jupiter)
I also like that the favicon changes colors. Nice touch.
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.
For christmas this seems to be the case.
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 (see 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 (see https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/HN1-Antibody-P...)
Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.
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
Shows the "holes" in this method.
Edit: Left a search running for 10 minutes and got some colors.
https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=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 :)
One should object, however, that the site returns colors for 'hadron' and 'meson' :).
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.