I’m looking at colour palette generation for paintr and draw-something.
Various mathematical systems:
http://openmodo.com/content/view/2/2/
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/sasmac/brewerpal.html
http://www.telecable.es/personales/alberto9/color/index.htm
http://www.sonosphere.com/WebTools/ColorPaletteGenerator/
http://www.colorcache.com/colorpicker.shtml
The usual colour-wheel oriented schemes, plus a scheme that seems based on swapping the RGB values, and a map colouring system I haven’t figured out yet.
And there’s also many image palette extractors, such as the one at praystation I can’t find just now.
Paintr could use other flickr images for colours, but that would remove the folksonomy element.
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How about mapping colours onto tones and using chords and scales? Anyone tried that?
Also, http://colorbrewer.org might be of interest.
Heya Tom.
Thanks for the link. Brewer’s system seems to be a way of making optimal palettes for colouring maps. No idea how it works but I’m going to see if there are any papers on it.
I don’t know if anyone’s tried mapping colours to tones, that sounds cool, kinda synaesthetic. Colour and sound relations are all mathematics at root so it should work. I now have some more research to do 🙂 :
Mathematics of musical scales at Wikipedia
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