alt Hacker NewsWhat coordinate in the space is furthest from any named color? It looks like there are some relatively large voids in the blue/purple boundary area but it’s hard to say.
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madcaptenor • yesterday at 3:56 PM
Here's the list of colors it works off of: https://github.com/meodai/color-names/blob/main/src/colornam...
I'm trying to figure it out.
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adzm • yesterday at 4:32 PM
You can choose other color spaces here which is neat and helps visualize this a bit more accurately.
perceptual distance is quite different from Euclidean distance in this RGB space. Like if put two swaths of color side by side and said “how similar are these?” to samples of people, the groupings would not much resemble this cube.
They’ve done this! It’s shown on a “chromaticity diagram”, and is useful for comparing what colors different screens/printers/etc can reproduce. (It’s 2D not 3D cause it’s normalized for luminance or brightness.) Color science is weirdly fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space?wprov=sfti1#