For the geek inside all of us!
Seems like an excellent idea.
http://whatcolourisit.scn9a.org/
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For the geek inside all of us!
Seems like an excellent idea.
http://whatcolourisit.scn9a.org/
That's pretty cool!
I am sad to say it means nowt to me.
Like it, very nice. :D (It would never be http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...psd637ba41.jpg time by that, though.. shame.)
Is anyone able to make this into an active desktop wallpaper? That would be amazing!!
It is taking the time and recoding it to change the background colour to match the colour code based on the time stamp, if you watch for a full minute you should see some big colour changes in that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by deejayburnout
I think it is based on each set of 2 digits giving you the value for each of the three colours in RGB, but it has just gone midnight so I will need to check in the morning to see how it looks then.
It is, the colour code is shown below the time as the #RRGGBB made from the hours, minutes and seconds respectively.Quote:
Originally Posted by KeyboardDemon
Will only vary between #000000 and #235959, rather than the full range up to #FFFFFF
Geek in me says it's a misrepresentation of colours, particularly the reds, leaving out about 1.669*10 to the 7 colours, which is almost all of them :)
I like it! :D
Fancy writing your own version to cover FF/24*hrs:FF/60*mins:FF/60*s to improve it? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by yamangman
Actually, that's kind of tempting. You'd need a *really* accurate colourimeter to tell the time from it, mind you ;) But it makes a pretty colour changing clock.
EDIT: OK, I'm proper sad. I've actually done this now. I'll get it online at some point and post up a link. It'll be absolutely black at midnight (00:00:00) and absolutely white at 23:59:59....
Oh that is cool.
You haven't really, have you? :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
That made me smile :)
Awesome! Look forward to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
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Nice colour ..,, Thanks for sharing with us .. :)
I've developed another version using sine functions, since this one seems a little arbitrary just plotting hours, minutes and seconds into hexadecimal values: http://whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com/
It covers the entire spectrum in 24 hours, providing a smoother composition of colors during the day. Each time of day has its own color, which is modulated tens of times every second.
What's the correlation between the time and the colour?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennu
Thanks for posting this up, I've just been to have a look and you've obviously put a lot of work into it; very impressive stuff :D I've edited your original post to make the link clickable (we have post count limits on posting links as part of our anti-spam measures!). It's great to have another eager contributor to hexus, and I hope you'll hang around and enjoy your time here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bennu
Hi Joshyy, there are three phased sine functions that govern the hue of each RGB color across the day. At midnight blue has its highest value, which means red and green are at a low value. Green peaks at 8 am and red peaks at 4 pm. The definition that green should be more prominent in the morning, red should represent the afternoon and blue the night is somewhat arbitrary [it actually relates to my perceiving the colors of day and night in my city, Belo Horizonte].Quote:
Originally Posted by Joshyy
Take a look at the four main sine functions that define the hexadecimal values for each color at each time of day:
[since I am new to the forum, I still cannot post URL's, so I edited the link below to be displayed as text]
whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com/-ref/study-hi.jpg
There are also three other sine functions [not shown in the graph above] that modulate red, green and blue several times in a second.
Thanks scaryjim! I am happy to be here and really flattered by your interest in what I have developed following the original idea by scn9a.org. There are several follow-up ideas I am considering to develop when I have the time. Joshyy posed a great question concerning the correlation of time and color, which in the current version represents my personal perception of each period of the day [since it was necessary for my algorithm to define a time of day in which each color would become more prominent].Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
I am thinking about ways in which the algorithm could be improved, accounting for more variables [where in the world each visitor is located, local sunset and sunrise times, current phase of the moon, and probably a way in which each user can define what color best represents each time of day, so their individual clocks can be customized and the overall clock can represent the collection of impressions about the correlations of color and time for each user that decided to contribute].
That's interesting, I've never seen it interpreted this way. I've set it to my bookmark for when my third monitor is idle :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bennu
:D great! keep me posted if you find anything interesting while letting the clock run all day
Hah! I await a UK version. Easier I'll warrant to hard-code a steely grey for all times and seasons! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bennu