Published in LeMonde, this article details Miguel Neiva’s work on color codes that would allow color-blind people to understand communication that uses color. Continue reading
About color
Color in movie posters – and other great visualizations
“I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images (yay wget — “The Social Network” inspired me to not use curl) from a site that has a lot of movie posters online. I then grouped the movie posters by the year in which the movie they promoted was released. For each year, I counted the total number of pixels for each colour in the year. After normalizing and converting to HSL coordinates, I generated the above visualizations. Continue reading
The man who hears colour
15 February 2012, BBC
Artist Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind. Here, he explains how a camera attached to his head allows him to hear colour.
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Colours in culture – beautiful diagram
The beautiful two dimensional color wheel is published with its legend on the Information is beautiful website. Continue reading
What can art tell us about perception?
L’art que peut-il nous dire de la perception?
La fondation Cartier présente simultanément une peintre et un photographe dont les démarches artistiques sont antagonistes. La première, Milhazes, tente de reproduire avec des formes géométriques abstraites, et des couleurs appliquées sur la toile, des impressions de réel. Continue reading