I Am So Far Behind The Times
June 7th, 2006
I found this color-based shopping aide today; I guess I kind of know in theory how it works, but I have no idea where I’d start if I had to reproduce it…
I found this color-based shopping aide today; I guess I kind of know in theory how it works, but I have no idea where I’d start if I had to reproduce it…
That’s really cool, they should add the option to colour-match items to help non-color-coordinated people.
If I were to reproduce this:
1. Take a group of item images
2. Possibly run a filter to isolate edges and identify the “main” color(s) inside the central outlines (though most of the images seem to already be a single main colour)
3. store the color with the other info of the image
4. when a user clicks on a color, using a range (or algorithm for color-matching) to bring up the appropriate items.