[HN Gopher] What color is it?
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What color is it?
Author : thither
Score : 112 points
Date : 2022-12-23 21:57 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com)
| braingenious wrote:
| Green.
| nier wrote:
| Excuse me for shamelessly self-promoting on Christmas Eve but
| I've built just the tool for that!
| https://adriannier.de/colordoggy
| kirab wrote:
| Is Mac this ubiquitous nowadays on Hacker News?
|
| This tool is Mac Only and that's mentioned neither here nor in
| the article. Only after reading the article, when you want to
| use the tool, and you scroll down to download it, you finally
| see that there's only one Mac only Download Button.
| nier wrote:
| Now you know how I felt growing up in the 90s. Like... we
| were supposed to get Halo not you! :)
| jensenbox wrote:
| Nope - I am on Linux only and have been for years.
| lkschubert8 wrote:
| Welp buying this immediately. I'm colorblind but dabble in some
| art and some design work and this will be super useful. I've
| found tools that will display rgb values, but translating that
| to a color mentally isn't particulary easily.
| nier wrote:
| Thanks for the support! :)
| n1c00o wrote:
| This is cool
| csdvrx wrote:
| Linked to that, I'm wondering how epoch seeding could be used
| with RNG in general.
|
| According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521295/seeding-
| the-rando... it's not possible.
|
| But if you have 2 events with a variable time between them (ex:
| when the user get a document, when you the user click on submit)
| I think it should: the set of {start, end} would have some
| limited entropy.
| n2d4 wrote:
| The StackOverflow question you linked is specifically about
| JavaScript's Math.random function. As you said, in general it's
| possible, in fact most software PRNGs use the epoch to
| construct their seeds.
| dmarinus wrote:
| I do something similar with my keyboard rgb leds.
| gps0 wrote:
| Do you use an existing solution, or did you make one myself?
| beefman wrote:
| My version from 2016 that lets you choose the color space and
| whether to cycle colors over a minute, hour, or day:
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| http://lumma.org/code/js/colortime/
|
| 85 lines of legible source right on the page.
| mfbx9da4 wrote:
| Cool idea
| [deleted]
| nvr219 wrote:
| Staring at this for 30 seconds and then hitting back to hn was
| trippy.
| FoomFries wrote:
| It seems disingenuous to fade from one color to the next while
| displaying only two hexes for color. Either that or it's not
| fading and my eyes are deceiving me, but as I'm on mobile I've
| not the time to look at the source code.
| kumarharsh wrote:
| Not sure what is disingenouous about it... The website is
| showing the current time encoded as colour, with some animation
| to make it look good. Its not a colour guessing game :)
| vultour wrote:
| For me the animation momentarily turns it into pink, then
| back to red. I don't really see the point because it just
| makes an entirely different color to what it's supposed to be
| showing.
| shkkmo wrote:
| This is explained here:
|
| > Since pure hue variations in RGB comprise less values
| than the total number of seconds in a day, colors are
| further modulated each second to show a distintive gamut of
| colors for every different moment in the day.
|
| > Variations are based on phased sine functions that
| respond to each individual color, the fine modulation and
| luminosity.
| [deleted]
| obert wrote:
| Screensaver https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/what-
| colour-...
| smallerfish wrote:
| Minor pedantry, but this copy is mixing two different time
| schemes:
|
| > [peaking at 0AM] while during the day colors are lighter
| [peaking at 12AM]
|
| 0(0:00) is a 24 hour clock concept, and isn't used with a 12 hour
| clock. Further, 12AM typically refers to midnight. So you either
| want {peaking at 00:00; peaking at 12:00} or {peaking at 12AM;
| peaking at 12PM}.
| samwillis wrote:
| See this brilliant thread by Foone:
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| https://mobile.twitter.com/foone/status/1572260363764400129
|
| "Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field
| somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine
| right up until we try to explain our calendar to them..."
| tmtvl wrote:
| Hm, I wonder if that guy realizes that there are other
| languages than English in the world, and that there are
| different calendars in use.
| drcongo wrote:
| That's addressed in the thread.
| vehementi wrote:
| That'll be $50, sir
| thunderbong wrote:
| Relevant HN thread (989 comments, posted by, ahem, myself!) -
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173`|
| vehementi wrote:
| New link, now more correct!
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173
| DoctorOW wrote:
| I've seen this one before, but I highly recommend anyone in
| the lucky 10,000 to read this.
| samstr wrote:
| [dead]
| vlovich123 wrote:
| Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field
| somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just
| fine, especially when they too admit they haven't figured out
| how to keep track of time consistently.
| chungy wrote:
| He makes the assumption that aliens wouldn't have their own
| seemingly-arbitrary date and time system. Honestly it's
| biased for a "everyone but humans are entirely logical and
| never deviated" viewpoint that cheap (bad) sci-fi goes for.
| Razengan wrote:
| _Lazy_ sci-fi. Every civilization except humans is unified
| and monolithic, or has at most maybe 2 subgroups, because
| it's hard to invent thousands of years of history.
|
| And not just fiction, but science also: "Why haven't aliens
| done X by now?"
| samtho wrote:
| This clearly humorous twitter thread has really nothing to
| do with aliens, it's shorthand for a viewpoint we can all
| understand enough to get the premise.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| There is no 12 am. There's 12 noon and 12 midnight. But no 12
| am or pm.
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| Not true. They exist, but can be confusing to some people.
| Because 12:01 AM is just past midnight (and 12:01 PM just
| past noon), 12:00 AM is midnight and 12:00 PM is noon.
| leipert wrote:
| Even more pedantic:
|
| > In Japanese usage, midnight is written as Wu Qian 0Shi (0:00
| a.m.) and noon is written as Wu Hou 0Shi (0:00 p.m.), making
| the hours numbered sequentially from 0 to 11 in both halves of
| the day.
|
| (As per Wikipedia) Can be found in the Intl.DateFormat API as
| well.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| The fact that it's 13 hours from 11AM to 12AM is probably the
| strangest thing in our already bizarre system of timekeeping
|
| Like December is the twelfth month because decus is Latin for
| ten...
| eCa wrote:
| > Like December is the twelfth month because decus is Latin
| for ten
|
| There also was a couple of dudes who wanted a month in their
| name that messed things up, IIRC..
| mfranc wrote:
| If you mean Caesar and Augustus, they are actually the
| reason we don't have even more badly named months, like
| Quintilis (July) and Sextilis (August). December was the
| tenth month simply because each new year started in March.
| This likely changed long before Caesar was even born. They
| also, allegedly, had only ten months, but the second king
| of Rome changed that, but it could also be just a legend.
| user- wrote:
| I dont get it. All I see is the color flickering between various
| oranges/reds with every second with no pattern I can discern
| [deleted]
| alberth wrote:
| > This version implements a different algorithm to translate time
| into colors, covering the whole visible light spectrum in 24
| hours. At night colors get darker [peaking at 0AM] while during
| the day colors are lighter [peaking at 12AM].
|
| http://whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com/about.html
|
| In case anyone is curious what they are looking at.
| bowmessage wrote:
| Also, if you'd rather not wait 24 hours, you can watch the full
| spectrum in a sped-up video here: https://vimeo.com/116576029
| xattt wrote:
| Here is an even quicker summary diagram:
| https://i7x7p5b7.stackpathcdn.com/codrops/wp-
| content/uploads...
| pugets wrote:
| What a coincidence. I just had an idea like this two days ago
| because we recently adopted a puppy and we're trying to establish
| routines. I think he is struggling with the day/night cycle since
| our blinds are usually pulled. I wanted to use a screen or a
| color-changing bulb, so he knows yellow o'clock means daytime and
| blue o'clock means night. Maybe I can use this. Thanks for open
| sourcing it.
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