Hi All, My colleague and friend Henrik is in need of data for his colour crowd sourcing app. So at your next FB/Pinterest/CandyCrush/Twtr/... break if you could spend a couple of minutes and play with colour will be zen and helpful.
http://evocolour.net See details below. Cheers, Pollie As those of you who have been anywhere near me in the past few weeks/months will no doubt know, I have been bashing my skull putting together a crowdsourcing study exploring colour preferences. So if yous have a moment, could you surf to: http://evocolour.net And have a go! The more you play with it, the more data I get and the more you will further the knowledge of mankind! So feel free to do it lots, it is quite a zen experience :) Naturally please let me know of any issues and bugs you come across. I'll monitor the system as yous use it, and assuming things don't fall over horribly, I'll go on to invite the residents next week, and then after that the rest of the world! In due course (assuming the system holds up to this soft launch), I'll be looking to get as many people as possible involved in this study. So if any of you are members of mailing lists or of relevant communities that would be interested in this sort of thing, I will ask a favour of yous to help me spread the word! If you are curious as to what is happening here is a wee blurb: *EvoColours is a project that seeks to exploit crowdsourcing (aka 'the wisdom of the crowds') to find how colour relationships relate to aesthetic preferences. When visitors come to the EvoColours website, they are presented with a series of pairs of images. Each image consists of concentric circles of (up to 3) colours in varying proportions and patterns. Users simply click on the image they prefer (with the option of 'no preference') for each pair presented. As this is done over and over, an evolutionary algorithm reinforces the properties of the popular images, and the unpopular images die off. A subsequent analysis of the evolved population will allow us to ask a number of questions; are there certain colour combinations and patterns that are significantly accepted as more pleasing? If so what are the objective attributes of such colour palettes? The analysis may allow us to build a model linking (some attributes of) colour palettes to global aesthetic preference. In EvoColours, each individual visitor drives two evolutions; a local evolution that only they affect, and a larger global evolution that all visitors affect. This provides us with the means of exploring how individual subjective aesthetic preferences might differ from global taste. Is beauty truly in the 'eye of the beholder'? or are there objective attributes that will be preferred across the majority of people. Additionally user data such as gender and age will be used in the analysis (do girls really prefer pink?) We can also analyse preferences in*composition*; for instance, do users prefer regular patterns, or more chaotic, irregular patterns? Is there a preference for certain ratios/proportions in the amounts of colour presented, and how does this relate to the positions of these colours in colour space? * -- ************************** "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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