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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at. ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^] It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT. But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods. Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects. It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names. Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at. ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^] It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT. But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods. Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects. It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names. Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I need that now! :-D :laugh: Nice btw! Now the computer can communicate to human better than me! ;P
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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at. ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^] It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT. But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods. Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects. It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names. Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at. ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^] It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT. But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods. Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects. It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names. Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
honey the codewitch wrote:
Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects.
That's what we have tips'n'tricks for. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects.
That's what we have tips'n'tricks for. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
If it wasn't useless, sure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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If it wasn't useless, sure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Seeing how you solved a problem isn't useless even if the application might be.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at. ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^] It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT. But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods. Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects. It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names. Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I have a vague recollection that someone has made a similar instrument to classify Lee, Rosco, Gam etc theatre gels, by passing light through them and then comparing against a database.
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If it wasn't useless, sure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Not useless! Based on the video this looks like a nice tidy little tool for folks designing apps for your environment.
Software Zen:
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Not useless! Based on the video this looks like a nice tidy little tool for folks designing apps for your environment.
Software Zen:
delete this;But it runs on the end machine. If I was making a tool like that to generate color values, it really should be on a PC, and then use those values on the device. However, I did find a use case for a particularly complicated application with a lot of user defined settings where you can change colors around. This is useful for that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.