Hi Polie,
thanks for sharing!
I cannot imagine what this can possibly test!
Though it IS fun to imagine what magical insights it might uncover
It is a weirdly pleasurable interaction - created an unfamiliar dialogue
in my head as I made choices. I think it could actually form the basis
for some mind control tool.
: )
R
On 09/11/2013 19:05, Pollie Barden wrote:
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 <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 <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? /
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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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