Darwinian color selection
Colorcell.org is an extremely cool web site that attempts to determine the most popular color-combinations in the world. If you register at the site, you can take a 2x2 cube grid and select colors for each four quadrants. Then your cell goes online and people can vote on their favorite color combos, in a sort of crazed blending of Darwin and Martha Stewart.
Any color combo that is top-ranked for 10 days goes into the Hall of Age, but when I checked out the Hall, I couldn't quite believe the incredibly weird color combo that is at the very top. My personal fave was a cell called "f+s", the ninth-most popular Hall of Ager, pictured above. It looks like a logo for the corporation I have not yet founded. Indeed, any new startup firm in Silicon Valley could skip the $3-million "branding" fee and just grab one of the colorful cells as their logo.
Actually, if you go to the bottom of the Hall of Fame, you'll see an entry called "Clearskies" which nicely matches the ice-on-ice color scheme of Collision Detection. Maybe I should implement it as a permanent logo? How can I resist the will of the mob?
(Thanks to Boing Boing for this one!)
Posted by Clive Thompson at August 06, 2004 02:24 PM
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Posted by: Jonathan Korman at August 7, 2004 9:09 PM
Hi there. A small correction to your article: It's not the Hall of Age where a cell goes into when it's on top but the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is the area where you see the oldest cells. They don't have to be Hall of Fame members - but they often are.
Btw: Thanks for featuring Colorcell on your blog! Great that you like my project.
Posted by: Colorcell Admin at August 9, 2004 2:38 AM
I'm digging the color cell site, although I wasn't allowed to create a cell because today's cells were all used up... :(
I find it interesting that like-colors seemed to be more popular than colors schemes with harsh contrasts. It would be interesting to see if there would be a difference among various age/gender/cultures in their voting on the color schemes.
Posted by: pork chop at August 9, 2004 9:07 AM
Jonathan, excellent catch on the f+s shoutout to the Strindberg cartoon. I'd never seen that before -- it rocks!
Colorcell folks, thanks for the correction too. And pork chop, yes, precisely, I wondered about the demographic aspects of the choices too. That would be some cah-ray-zee data to check out!
Posted by: Clive at August 9, 2004 1:12 PM
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I'm fairly certain that "f+s" must be an allusion to the Strindberg & Helium episode "With Sulfur and Iron."
Posted by: Jonathan Korman at August 7, 2004 9:09 PM
Hi there. A small correction to your article: It's not the Hall of Age where a cell goes into when it's on top but the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is the area where you see the oldest cells. They don't have to be Hall of Fame members - but they often are.
Btw: Thanks for featuring Colorcell on your blog! Great that you like my project.
Posted by: Colorcell Admin at August 9, 2004 2:38 AM
I'm digging the color cell site, although I wasn't allowed to create a cell because today's cells were all used up... :(
I find it interesting that like-colors seemed to be more popular than colors schemes with harsh contrasts. It would be interesting to see if there would be a difference among various age/gender/cultures in their voting on the color schemes.
Posted by: pork chop at August 9, 2004 9:07 AM
Jonathan, excellent catch on the f+s shoutout to the Strindberg cartoon. I'd never seen that before -- it rocks!
Colorcell folks, thanks for the correction too. And pork chop, yes, precisely, I wondered about the demographic aspects of the choices too. That would be some cah-ray-zee data to check out!
Posted by: Clive at August 9, 2004 1:12 PM