Exciting news on ColRD.com! Today we’re announcing the public beta of Image DNA, available exclusively on the Chrome Webstore. Image DNA is an application that aides you with intelligent extraction of colors from images. The colors extracted are spread evenly across the humanly visible spectrum; so you’ll notice, for example, although there is not much blue in [...]
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Color Sphere
Color Sphere was one of my 1st HTML5 projects, way back in 2007. Well, the years passed, browsers sped up, my hair grew longer, and nothing changed on Color Sphere… but the time has come! The latest rendition is bigger (easier to see), more accurate (pixel perfect), and looks really cool when you switch it [...]
ColRD: Gradient Creator
Tonight, on ColRD, we released the latest rendition of Palette Creator, along with our newest addition; the Gradient Creator! This new webapp makes it fun and easy to create CSS3 linear gradients UPDATE: You can also download the Gradient Creator as a Chrome webapp. Features: Drag & Drop GIMP Gradient (.GGR) files into the browser to view [...]
Color Accessibility in the Browser
Announcing the release of color-blindness daltonization + simulation bookmarklets; daltonize.appspot.com The Chrome Daltonize extension is faster in many cases, and uses less bandwidth than the bookmarklet—highly recommended when Google Chrome is an option! What is daltonization? “Daltonization is a process performed by the computer that allows people with color vision deficiencies to distinguish a range of detail they are [...]
Background Generator
I worked on a future release of BG a few months back, and am excited to share some screenshots! It’s exciting to be able to produce wallpapers for my Desktop in my Browser. Since creating these images, I’ve found that by using JSZip and Downloadify the browser can generate HUGE, high-resolution and print-ready graphics. The largest file that I’ve successfully exported from [...]
ColRD: website
ColRD is a new website to help you find Colors, Palettes, Gradients and Patterns. It was developed by Daniel Christopher, of LucentPDX, and myself. The best place to get started is the Discover page. There you can narrow down results using filter by colors, or types, as seen in the above (Red/Black/Brown Patterns). After many years of [...]
ColRD: Color Extractor
UPDATE: Renamed to Image DNA and released as a Chrome Extension, read more. I spent last weekend working on a color palette extractor in HTML5. These examples illustrate automatically picked 7-color and the 90-color palette to represent the image. Although the results are organized by the color popularity within the palette, colors that don’t show up much are [...]
Color Piano v1
UPDATE: There is a more recent post on Color Piano. Color Piano Theory (CPT) was inspired by an interest in building an educational application that utilizes colors in teaching piano theory. CPT ties together chords, scales, inversions, octaves, and key signatures. CPT is a visual interface for learning the keyboard. This application also includes a bit [...]
What can 1kb of Javascript do?
JS1k is challenge presented by Peter van der Zee to design the most creative use out of 1kb of Javascript. Many beautiful demos have been added in the first few days: mr. doob, hyperandroid, and antimatter. The challenge is addicting, “How much functionality can you fit in 1024 characters?”. Here are my results: Breathing Galaxies [...]
Sphere Plugin
I’ve prepared a new DHTML plugin, licencened under Creative Commons. It works perfectly on all Macintosh browsers, however, I haven’t had the opportunity to test on Windows… If there are bugs there, it would be great if someone could submit the fix’s… otherwise, you’ll have to wait for me to get around to finding a [...]
ColorJack: Sphere
Ever wonder what a computer programmer does while on vacation? The same thing we do every night. Check out the newest release from ColorJack Labs (developed in Mexico). Sphere allows you to visualize the theory behind color schemes. Try messing around with “Custom” function on the color blindness menu for more advanced options.
Sphere Widget
Do you like ColorJack Sphere? Want it on your desktop? Download the widget for Apple’s Dashboard!
DHTML Color Picker
I finally got all the ColorJack code into a little widget for your websites! It’s surprisingly small… the entire package weighs in at only 24.5k To give you an idea for comparison, it’s nearest competitor is 72.3k. Feel free to use the widget on any of your projects. You can find the source code <- over [...]
ColorJack: Studio
Studio is finally ready for mass-consumption. This new release greatly increases compatibility. These languages are now supported: Arabic, Chinese, Deutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, and Japanese. Special thanks to Logos / Google / Babel Other changes include a simplified user interface, better color blindness support, and del.icio.us colorscheme export… speaking [...]