Aphoristische Spielereien, Anregungen zum eigenen Gestalten und zum Betrachten farbiger Phänomene. Hinweise zum Entdecken und zum vertiefenden Erforschen der Welt der Farbe. Wissenswertes, aber vor allem Vergnügliches zum Thema.
This map does not depict actual data. Instead, it has been carefully designed to be a diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes. Full use of this tool will benefit your map designs because colors (even very similar colors) are easy to differentiate when they appear in a nicely ordered sequence (such as a legend). The task of differentiating the colors, however, becomes much harder when the patterns on the map are complex, such as in the lower left corner of the diagnostic map.
Color Palette Creator is an application that 'summarizes' the colors used in the uploaded image and represents the results in bar charts. I wrote this to prepare for next version of automatic painting experiment, but this can also be used to other purposes, for example, in making a color theme for the interface of a mobile phone or web application from the user's favorite photo. The application analyzes the colors using two different color spaces: RGB and HSV, and generates two graphs. RGB seems to work better most of the time, but I left both for comparison. Try uploading your images.