Yes there are some fun names in there: ice, yelowish, midnight, barney. Also some very 'human-excreta-related' ones: puke, vomit, poo, booger, ... But I chose not to pass a watch-out-for-the-children filter. (What would I do with Barney for example ? :-P )
On 24 Oct 2010, at 03:46, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > 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 -- 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
