new favorite color: space cadet (#1E2952) (not really)
more suns rise, bright cold off-color gems in the sky, unfamiliar flora growing in their light, mushrooms unfolding leaves hidden for aeons
Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.
Color management deals with translating between representations of
colors across a variety of devices. Throughout this post, we’ll use
natural language as … ⌘ Read more
Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.
This post only aims to help you understand the basic concepts without
having to delve into dense literature and hard to grok technical
documents.
Color … ⌘ Read more
AppleWorld 1987 – when the Mac got color and expandability
Steve Jobs was extremely against color screens and expansion bays, but after he was forced out of Apple… they arrived! ⌘ Read more
Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal… and much more.
Tandy Color Computer 3, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Emacs, and… Microsoft Word? Yup. Wordle is there too. ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Linux sued by McDonald’s for copying trademark “garish orange color scheme”
“Hideous colors are our thing! Back off, Ubuntu!” says Ronald ⌘ Read more
Nerdy color by number - Commodore PET
One of the coolest looking computers – from 1977 – just begs to be colored. ⌘ Read more
Nerdy Color-by-Number: Bill Gates posing seductively
What’s more fun than Color-by-Numbers? Color-by-Numbers of really goofy, nerdy things. ⌘ Read more
Thank you @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org - yeah they are kinda crazy color wheels
Color Fun Fact from Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
The beauty of computer games on Amber screens
Colors? Colors?! We don’t need no stinking colors! ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Unless you are stripping stuff on your twts, there is no much to implement. Things will be bold , italics , underlined , and so on, on a client that can render them. Since jenny uses Mutt, I can use my own regex in it to color them as I like. That’s pretty much it.
Worst color palette: ZX Spectrum or CGA?
The two ugliest color palettes in computer history… but which burns your eyes the most? ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate. With this release, we’re shipping over 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for our customers. ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Color of Light ⌘ Read more
Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”
You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.
Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more
Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”
You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.
Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more
Rendering arbitrary images on the 256-color Mu computer: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106671394323266954
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7CdoznhJaLEKHwvJW/p/LfGzAduBWzY5gq6FE uses color really well in proofs. I will need to copy that.
pcd quito 2021: we had a talk on compudanzas and a workshop on coloring computers. | https://compudanzas.net/talks_and_workshops.html
Because these are the spiral timezones, and like us you managed to slip under the world’s skin. But stay too long and it’ll heal around you, and good luck ever getting back then, or seeing the old colors again
Actually included a recipe for carrots in apricot glaze, as promised. (Primrose describes this as the color of her hair at the beginning of the chapter.) To be honest though I could do with a little less carrots in apricot glaze and with a little more waffles!
hatching is a monochrome system traditionally used in woodcuts and engravings to denote tinctures (colors) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)]] #1bit #links
randoma11y is a color generator that generates two colors and scores them using WCAG system for accessibility: [[https://randoma11y.com/]] #links #color
The lospec palette list is a database of palettes for pixel art: [[https://lospec.com/palette-list]] #links #pixelart #color
the c64 method would be an even cheaper video storage mechanism, but you wouldn’t get constant 2-bit color.
my #breathingcard etudes are 128x64 resolution videos with 4x zoom, that normally use no more than 4 colors (2-bits) using a 2-bit color storage format, that’s ~7mb a minute for raw uncompressed 60 fps video. not bad. #halfbakedideas
I’ve been thinking about storing the output of some of my audio-visual etudes in a more portable lossless 4-bit indexed color format, rather than rely on x264 directly. #halfbakedideas #etudes #breathingcards #longterm
How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Website with Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/change-link-colour.shtml
the natural color system: when in doubt, these are some pretty good functional colors. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Color_System]].
I want to like https://amp.rs/, but both its color schemes look horribad on a 256-color terminal (the most Terminal.app supports). The only terminal I have installed that supports lots of colors is…Visual Studio Code.
How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/change-link-colour-bluegriffon.shtml
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Colors for Programmers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/11/colors.html #techtips #programming #design #color #format #math
30 minutes of scrubbing and washing later, my monitor’s solid-color background looks solid-colored.
gameboy color speaker replaced using ds lite speaker. sounds quieter than I expected. but better than no sound at all. this, combined with the new case I got for it, makes it almost feel like a brand new device :)
This almost makes me want to bother changing to a 24-bit-color terminal as my main: https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel
Unexpected prefers-color-scheme-using website of the day: openbsd.org
Today’s fish fun: set -l color_host $fish_color_host; if command -qs shasum; set color_host (printf (prompt_hostname) | shasum -pa 256 - | cut -c 59-64 | tr -d ‘\n’); end
Found out that Terminal will switch from light to dark themes if background color is unset. One catch: “background color” includes transparency and blur settings.
Turns out that color-scheme support only works in the Safari Technology Preview beta.
Tempted to make a “dark motherfucking website” also-satire that has the minimal amount of @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) to keep people from blowing out their retinas when viewing the site at night.
Make your website better in bed. Use @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { /* … */ }.
%23-quote-bottom<\/title><\/linearGradient><\/defs>… https://jezebel.com/pizzagate-satanic-panic-and-the-power-of-conspiracy-t-1833551416
I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?
GitHub - JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN: SC-FEGAN : Face Editing Generative Adversarial Network with User’s Sketch and Color https://github.com/JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’ Ignored the Rules – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/spider-man-into-the-spiderverse-colored-outside-the-lines-1203141617/
Nicolas Cage to Star in ‘Color Out of Space’ – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/nicolas-cage-color-out-of-space-1203115589/
what color a pixel really is, the world only learns after its death
New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image
ENTH Flux aha Color Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/enthflux.htm
Color Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/color4th.html
Bad idea of the day: Rather than having a ‘madness’ mechanic, have a ‘stress’ mechanic that causes perceptual distortion (tunnel vision, increased color contrast, blurred vision, louder environmental sounds) & motor distortion (worse aim, movement delays)
Bad idea of the day: replace whitespace with color changes
Bad idea of the day: run deOldify on manga pages, consider the new color schemes canon, move to a surreal universe of floating pastels
The Color of Pomegranates: A Failed Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.
@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.
Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish
Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish
When she comes into contact with water, all the colors wash off her in ink swirls and she has to steal it back from trees, flowers, stones, sunset
Band name of the day: impossible color
The opposite of ‘interesting’ is ‘colorful’.
Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?
Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be
@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org Colors? Where?
Syntax highlighting. Because colors.
Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/
Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color
Bad idea of the day: Sort the frames of a movie by average color & play it that way
The young ones, not brought up in the physical world, find our notions of object permanence quaint. Their scapes are not rooms and buildings, but gardens of colored light that look like mental noise to us
atypical colors that vary in hue depending on how bright they are
colors that are reverse cone cell agonists, producing negative colors↵↵colors that are partial agonists or antagonists and look normal until mixed with regular colors, at which point they break color theory
a drug that leaves your own perception untouched but in the eyes of everybody else, you cycle colors constantly, wear a fractal crown, eyes open all over your limbs
New repository: aquilax/mobile-background-image-generator - Solid color background image generator
An umbrella that looks like a soap bubble and changes in color and texture accordingly
touch a column and gray circles briefly expand over its surface↵sing and an occasional flash of color reveals part of the palace
Rethemed my desktop using the colors from the atom-one-dark theme: https://imgur.com/a/IDunX
You will choose not only the color of your self-driving car, but also its moral framework: Kantian, Aligned™, but also Nihilist (if you pay
Blind from birth, when asked to imagine colors, she makes it sound like she’s found something better than us and we don’t dare fix her eyes
Iris with the One Ring’s inscription.↵Iris color changes depending on EEG-measured mood.↵Just regular eyes, but sometimes a fish swims by.
or plant a rainbow orchard and milk them for their sap: pure color that can be painted directly onto air with moth wing brushes
Under the shower, all the colors run off her and a glassy outline stays behind
Despite warning coloration and sirens, ambulances are stingless, even benign. It’s the more dangerous police car they mimic to be left alone
One of the clouds is painted in gaudy colors and surrounded by small flying shapes: The airfolk’s circus, on its way to the capital.
In an effort to brighten up the cityscape, they now paint colorful irises on their surveillance balloons
his words solidify and drift to the floor where they crack open and grow into flowers, fire-colored moss, pebble nymphs and bonsai thickets
- melancholy but colorful instead of black↵* sugary hysteric hyperbliss↵* the feeling evoked by things fitting together
They’re amazed the low-res zones host any life at all. Around them, the simulation has a much higher resolution, colors are more vibrant,
Behold! color_nick=“red on_yellow blink” is now a thing! #txtnish
Behold! color_nick=“red on_yellow blink” is now a thing! #txtnish
She opens her eyes and no, not the eyelids, the eyes: Two hyperspheres swivel around, irises vanish into themselves, cycle colors and shapes
Snorting food coloring will not cure your cold, but at least you’ll leave behind tons of paper tissue rorschach blots
every day, you wake up into a new world, the sky a different color, gravity in another direction, with gray dreams the only fixture
cursed image: the rubik’s cube solves to show the same color on all sides
“You know, they were right about the two afterlives. But I believe they got the colors wrong.”
Glowing with no color at all, they look like hairline fractures in reality, extend upwards as if to extract nutrient from space itself
wait are you telling me it doesn’t work like that, now will you look at the color channels on this one, repurposed for bitfield irrigation
party where attendants wear color-coded AR gear, see only those with the same color, and walk on color coded lines to avoid collisions