4/15/2026 at 6:20:03 PM
by evakhoury
4/18/2026 at 2:37:16 AM
I really like the idea of iteration 7, but I feel like it would work a lot better with some minimum height on the y axis. Letting it peter out to zero loses the "spectrum-ness" of it, and it just looks like various random color blobs. Maybe could have a fixed minimum height, and somehow use saturation to distinguish "truly zero here" from "really low amount here".by loneboat
4/18/2026 at 12:36:34 AM
Visually the results are very compelling! It also gives an at-a-glance intuition about the image that the bar-style options fail to convey. I am a fan.by MontagFTB
4/18/2026 at 7:20:52 AM
This is a very interesting project. As a design teacher, I recommend to my students that they do not employ color swatches for anything other than flat color designs. Certainly for an animation, a photo or a movie such simplified visualizations have little value as they do not convey the kind of ranges information this project is addressing.That being said, I am certain that there is no 2D method of visualizing such fundamentally 3D information as color.
by Daub
4/18/2026 at 10:05:01 AM
This will doubtless be an unpopular comment, but the "Do not" imperative at the bottom of the page was super jarring to me. I really don't appreciate random websites trying to tell me what to do in such a direct imperative tone, and would never write like that even if it were my intention; not to mention that it doesn't actually prevent anything.Pity, because it was a nice article.
by pixelpoet
4/18/2026 at 1:43:29 PM
(Replying to myself because the above was posted over 2 hours ago)I was thinking about how I'd go about it, and I think first I'd Hilbert sort the colours in something like OKLab space, then generate a PDF from this using Just Noticeable Diff weights, then sample that PDF using something either uniform regular or golden ratio samples (must be monotonically increasing).
by pixelpoet
4/18/2026 at 10:42:56 AM
are you referring to "All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. © 2026" ?by throawayonthe
4/18/2026 at 1:36:00 PM
Yes, the "Do not" imperative feels so bossy and unnecessary; the people who need to hear it don't care / won't heed it, and the rest of us were directly instructed not to do something (which we weren't even remotely interested in doing anyway) just because we happened to read a blog post all the way to the end.I know it's a small thing but the tone really does bug me; consider if I would put a trailer to this Honestly Just Another Random Ass Comment On The Internet:
Do not reproduce this comment without permission.
by pixelpoet
4/18/2026 at 1:43:11 AM
Is there source available for this?by ranger_danger
4/18/2026 at 6:41:30 AM
Iteration 7 would be interesting as a video (for a video).by nopakos
4/18/2026 at 5:43:46 AM
I like the final idea, but I think I'd like it better on a log scale -- so many of the colors get basically one or two pixels of height.by vessenes
4/18/2026 at 1:17:59 AM
Now make it polar and you almost have a vectorscope...by orbital-decay