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I made a silly IoT thing that tells you the name of the color you're pointing at.
ESP32 X11 Color Detector w/ GFX - YouTube[^]
It's not even useful as a color picker, because nobody needs a color picker on IoT.
But it has 140 named X11 colors to choose from. Some of the choices, like finding indian red among the pinks, are surprising, but not inaccurate by cartesian color distance methods.
Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects.
It's very simple. Get an HSV color value, use that to do your color picky things, and drawing, and then make a palette of named x11 colors. Use a cartesian distance matching algorithm to find the closest matching color in the palette, and then use that palette index as an index into a string table containing the color names.
Anyway, just a silly toy i made.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I need that now!  
Nice btw! Now the computer can communicate to human better than me! 
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well, it might help severe color blindness people...
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honey the codewitch wrote: Anyway, it's not really worth making an article out of, because it's not useful by itself, but presented as a curiosity for any of you PCers that want to adapt the idea into your projects.
That's what we have tips'n'tricks for. 
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If it wasn't useless, sure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Seeing how you solved a problem isn't useless even if the application might be.
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Not useless! Based on the video this looks like a nice tidy little tool for folks designing apps for your environment.
Software Zen: delete this;
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But it runs on the end machine. If I was making a tool like that to generate color values, it really should be on a PC, and then use those values on the device.
However, I did find a use case for a particularly complicated application with a lot of user defined settings where you can change colors around. This is useful for that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have a vague recollection that someone has made a similar instrument to classify Lee, Rosco, Gam etc theatre gels, by passing light through them and then comparing against a database.
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recently I start to play around with this control and it is a great control.
from the comments section, it is known the author passed away. real sorry about that...
diligent hands rule....
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Oh.. this is tragic news... But also our unavoidable fate... 
May he rest he in peace...
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It is those he left behind that suffer, all of his problems are behind him.
Take a look at a YouTube video "Funny Tombstones". Those were folks that had the right attitude.
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Wordle 304 6/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 304 X/6
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Lost today, in spite of getting three letters correct early on.
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Same here Wordle 304 X/6
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⬜🟧⬜🟧🟧 I should have sacrificed turn 5 to eliminate more letters rather than just keep plugging away
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got lucky:
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Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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That's my streak broken...
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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collective gasp of all CPians
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Looks like I had the same problem as a few others. Too many options:
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Wordle 304 6/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Here's my entry for today.
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Wordle 304 4/6
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