[HN Gopher] Show HN: Huemint - Machine learning for color design
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Show HN: Huemint - Machine learning for color design
Author : Jack000
Score : 214 points
Date : 2022-03-02 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| rtcoms wrote:
| Nice work.
|
| Few days back I was trying to decide a colr theme which woul work
| for both light and dark mode. Would this be able to solve that ?
| xingped wrote:
| This is amazing! I love it! Actually needed this kind of thing
| right now to figure out a color scheme for a website.
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| If able, would it be possible to add Material-UI as a section
| similar to the Bootstrap section?
| crudbug wrote:
| Great work. The theme generated is also great -
| https://huemint.com/bootstrap-basic/
| lepapillon wrote:
| What a great idea. My intuition for matching colours like this
| isn't very strong, so this is really helpful for mocking things
| up. Thanks for sharing.
| hardwaregeek wrote:
| This is really nice! It'd be nice if the colors picked were saved
| in the url, so that you can use history to navigate the different
| patterns generated.
| shadowoflight wrote:
| I love this suggestion (and hope the OP implements it), but in
| the meantime, there _is_ a link button on the toolbar right
| next to the palette that provides a link to the generated
| palette.
| toxik wrote:
| Page crashes on my phone. Safari.
| adriancooney wrote:
| This is incredible. I've been struggling with a color palette for
| my most recent project so I uploaded a screenshot of it, clicked
| generate and I instantly got a really nice palette! Amazing work
| - thank you.
| Syzygies wrote:
| Nice. I have daydreamed about something like this for years, and
| this is not it.
|
| I'd imagine a series of left/right comparisons, like a visit to
| an eye doctor, where the machine learning is rewarded for its
| ability to predict my preferences. Eventually (a time commitment
| for me) it will be able to build from scratch color designs that
| I love.
|
| This is like an early application of machine learning: What are
| the odds of victory for this backgammon position? Here, instead,
| we've estimating a preference function on color triples. Is RGB
| even the right domain, or do we want to work in some frequency
| transform, to capture the equivalent to musical chords. This is
| an empirical question, that can only be answered by trying to
| estimate this preference function, and noticing ripples better
| resolved by a different parametrization.
|
| This would be easy, compared to the Riemannian geometry used in
| medical imaging. There's more money there.
|
| For commercial use one cares what others think. There's the
| speciation question: You won't synthesize deep jazz tracks and
| deep blues tracks without separating the advice into species.
| Identifying clusters in data is something statisticians have
| worried about since the dawn of statistics.
| uxamanda wrote:
| This is nice. Once of my favorite palette tools is coolors.co,
| and they have a nice feature that let's you hit spacebar for a
| new palette. Would be useful here too I think.
|
| Also would be nice to "apply" the colors from an upload image to
| the various scenarios. I.e. grab X colors from image and generate
| would cycle through various forms of those (possible adding extra
| complementary colors as needed).
| uxamanda wrote:
| Hmm, I realize I was the upload image works backwards from how
| I expected - I think you are actually intending me to upload a
| screenshot of a design to then swap out palettes. That is super
| cool, but on first guess I thought you were extracting from
| mine to make a palette. Might need a little helper text, but
| cool feature!
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| That's really cool! I like the various demos of the themes.
|
| I need to play with it some more, and understand how to use it,
| but good job!
| desireco42 wrote:
| Totally don't buy the machine learning thing for this, but
| fantastically well done, especially like example pages. Really
| good, thank you for this.
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| Yes, I'm not sure how ml is used or needed here. But the
| website is well done.
| desireco42 wrote:
| I am a little bit confused, why does a scheme changes every
| time I switch page, I would like to see single scheme applied
| all over? Or maybe I am not understanding how this works?
| owlninja wrote:
| I think I see - you can 'lock' the colors at the top and they
| remain persistent.
| rambambram wrote:
| Wow, nice job!
|
| I clicked around and got the same color palettes on multiple
| occasions. Is that because I have to give the system some input
| for it to work?
|
| Your websites are fantastic, by the way. Google and/or NASA
| should contact you. ;)
| Jack000 wrote:
| Try increasing the "creativity" slider in the options. Setting
| it to a higher value will increase diversity at the cost of
| accuracy. (This controls the sampling temperature like in
| language models)
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| When I use the tool myself, I usually start with the
| transformer model to lock the first few colors, then switch to
| the diffusion model if I see a repeat. When all colors are
| locked except one or two, the "random" mode starts working if
| you still need more variations.
| rambambram wrote:
| Thanks. Still browsing your photo galleries, just beautiful.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| In Russian, the name reads as something indecent.
| educaysean wrote:
| I opened it with a skeptical eye and walked away completely
| impressed. Despite the odd dissonances that pop up at intervals,
| many of the palettes produced are not only trendy and pleasing
| but also unexpected and creative in some ways.
|
| Huge kudos!
| bebopsbraunbaer wrote:
| very cool! Thanks for sharing
| canniballectern wrote:
| This is really cool, I'm excited to see more ML applied to design
| like this.
|
| One project I wish someone would build is an ML-powered algorithm
| for perceptually even saturation, drawing on crowdsourced data to
| help pick colors that most people would perceive as being equally
| colorful
| armchairhacker wrote:
| I've used multiple color palette generators and this is
| definitely one of the best. Besides the ML, showing the colors on
| images like a phone and real web pages is really impressive.
|
| My one suggestion is since you have Bootstrap support, maybe add
| TailwindCSS utility support as well
| hwers wrote:
| Really gorgeous visualization! (Took me a bit to realize you
| could scroll out and rotate it.)
| Jack000 wrote:
| thanks! it's supposed to be like an easter egg.
| shadowoflight wrote:
| This is fantastic, and I will definitely use it for personal
| projects in the future!
|
| I see a few requests for practical features here, but I have one
| incredibly silly request: how plausible would it be to restrict
| the colors to a set list of RGB values, so one could, say,
| generate color palettes for physical mediums based on medium
| color -> RGB conversion lists, such as painting, cross stitch
| thread[0], or yarn[1]?
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| [0]: https://threadcolors.com
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| [1]: https://halcyonyarn.com/yarn-colors/color-codes/
| jcims wrote:
| I have to say I'm very impressed with the extent to which you
| explored this idea, explained it and then applied to a very
| usable and useful service.
|
| Well done!
| bduerst wrote:
| Usually I just got to Adobe kuler to find color schemes for
| projects: https://color.adobe.com/explore
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| But this project creates some pretty good ones on the fly. I'd be
| interested in knowing what features of colors it's uncovered,
| that it uses to generate new swatches.
| Jack000 wrote:
| Also, here's a writeup on how the machine learning system works:
| https://huemint.com/about/#machine-learning
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| You can guide the ML model by locking one or more colors, then
| clicking generate again. (click the circular swatch on top to
| lock a color)
| tqi wrote:
| This was really cool project and a great writeup!
|
| It's interesting to think what would happen if a tool /
| technique like this one became super popular. Would we see more
| variation, as more people could choose schemes that look good?
| Or would we see convergence as there are no longer people
| actively making decisions (similar to what may be happening in
| the stock market due to the rise of index funds: [1])?
|
| [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/the-
| autopi...
| jerpint wrote:
| Very impressive technical work, a relatively complex approach
| explained in a simple way, well done
| isoprophlex wrote:
| This writeup is fantastic. Clear description, beautiful
| visualizations... looks like a true labor of love.
| SpaceManNabs wrote:
| This should be added to the AI for art list going around!
|
| edit: I forgot where I saw the list for 2021 but it included
| stuff like this
| https://twitter.com/ML4CDworkshop/status/1467661464400183298...
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