2012-03-14

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More examples of gcolor results.

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Have you ever wanted to know the color of magic? Or the color of absolutely anything? Let gcolor figure it out for you.

gcolor is a scientificâ„¢ method for converting an arbitrary string to a color. Handy both for getting definitions of real colors, as well as determining the colors of abstract concepts. The basic idea is to leverage crowdsourced synergies by searching for the given text in Google Image Search, then compute an average color out of all the returned thumbnail images.

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