During a recent "you have reached the end of the web"-style browsing session, I stumbled upon what looks to be a powerful tool for color research: 3D Histogram, an open source web application from Minneapolis-based Third Ave Design.
3D Histogram "provides a visualization of the overall color composition of an image by placing cubes in a 3D space whose X, Y, and Z values correspond to the R, G, and B values of the color being graphed." Each cube is "painted with the color it represents, and then sized according to its relative frequency in the image."
The fashion-related applications are endless--you could use it to research color trends, to get a firm grasp of color theory, or to understand the effects of lighting and texture on color. Above are yields from a "swatch" image of the Fall '08 Thakoon dress pictured at left. Now if only the data were downloadable in spreadsheet form...
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Hi,
Very nice beauty blog you have here. Found your blog after searching information for makeup reviews. Thanks for the great information!
My name is Irene and I'm involved in an online beauty community website called http://www.ColorMeGorgeous.com. I was hoping that you would have a minute to check out the site and perhaps if you liked what you saw... write about it on your blog?
I may be going out on a limb by asking you for promotional help through your blog, but I hope you find ColorMeGorgeous.com to be as news worthy/helpful as I perceive it to be. There's still a lot of work to be done with it, but I'm working on it. It's hard to compete when you're a small fish in a huge sea with huge sites like MUA and the likes, but I do what I can :) My favorite part of the site is the 'critic's corner' where members can review or read up on various product reviews for makeup and skincare. Then there's always the forum, the photo gallery, the ask a makeup artist page, etc.
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Posted by: MichelleB | October 21, 2008 at 03:10 AM
Thank you for this cool resource! When I design websites I always love to find color pallettes that work well together and lately I've been really stumped. I think this will help me get my creative juices flowing again.
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Posted by: Felicia | November 04, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Dear Blog Owner,
I love your blog! My name is Irene, and I have a littlee beauty community website called ColorMeGorgeous.com:
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I recently found your site and am very interested in exchanging links. As you know, reciprocal linking benefits both of us by raising our search rankings and generating more traffic to both of our sites. I wanted to ask if you would please post a link to my site as follows, and in exchange, I’ll post your link on my site.
Title: ColorMeGorgeous
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Description: An online beauty community which offers forums, monthly contests, product reviews of makeup and skincare, expert advice, and more!
Once you've posted the link, let me know the URL of the page that it's on, and I will post it on my site.You can reply to me at [email protected]
Thank you very much,
Irene
Posted by: Irene | November 13, 2008 at 03:28 PM
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Posted by: Alyssa | April 17, 2009 at 04:33 PM
That is prity cool. I wish I could use it right now. I am trying to decide on what colors to use in my new house. I wanted the walls and furniture to blend well and be pleasing to the eye.
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Posted by: Andrea | June 16, 2009 at 05:13 AM
Thank you for this cool resource! When I design websites I always love to find color pallettes that work well together and lately I've been really stumped. I think this will help me get my creative juices flowing again.
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