ok I read the code :) I like 'swamp'
Stef On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Johan Fabry wrote: > Hi all, > > in the work of AspectMaps I was a bit let down by the named colors Pharo > provides (Color red et cetera). Now I am happy to say that thanks to the XKCD > color survey I was able to improve on this. I can now use 261 named colors > thanks to a XKCDColor class, and I'd like to share the code, ideally to be > included into Pharo. The code is available in bugreport > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3148 > > Here is the class comment fo XKCDColor: > > ---snip--- > A color named according to the XKCD color survey, as published in > http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ ("Over five million > colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.") > > Of the full table of 954 colors that is published only those were selected > that did not have a space in their name, ignoring e.g. electric lime, nasty > green, macaroni and cheese, pinkish tan, but also light light blue, strong > blue. This results in a table of 261 named colors, but with duplicates such > as ochre and ocre. These were left in since as they are common misspellings > it is more convenient for the user. > > To instantiate: XCDColor named: aString where aString is one of the 261 named > colors. If the name is not known, the color red is instantiated. Instances of > XKCDColor know their XKCD color name, returned by the name accessor. > > Thanks to Randall Monroe of http://xkcd.com for providing the data. > ---snip--- > > And here is a picture of all the colors (Generated with Mondrian :-) ) > > <Colors.png> > > -- > Johan Fabry > jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
