In 2005, archaeologist Jon Harman was attending a conference on rock art when he came across an unexpected source of inspiration: images of Mars. One showed the planet’s familiar rusty-red surface; another, created using a method developed at NASA, transformed … Read more
Most chromatic color inside the sRGB gamut that has a similar hue to olo Olo is an imaginary color that can only be seen using specialized tools that exclusively activate the M cone cells on the retina. It is impossible … Read more
The Color of White Light The biggest lie in color photography is that you can accurately represent the colors of objects by simply recording the amount of red, green and blue in them. This technique – the only one in current … Read more
Lindell Williams (left) and Grant Brodnik align an optical fiber with the edge of an integrated photonics chip. Optical fibers act as pipes for light, enabling the light generated on these chips to be collected and routed off the chip … Read more
How do we assess color accuracy between different images? Unfortunately, the commonly used RGB color space is not perceptually uniform, which means that equal changes in RGB values do not correspond to equal perceived changes in color. This inconsistency can … Read more
How to Use Use the palette chooser to create a series of colors that are visually equidistant. This is useful for many data visualizations, like pie charts, grouped bar charts, and maps. Note: there are two other modes besides palette … Read more
Sep 08, 2025 3 min #npm Note: the situation is still unfolding, I’ll update this article as more comes in. On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of … Read more
La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d’un train, by Claude Monet (1877) My favorite color has changed throughout my life, cycling through the entire spectrum of visible light and beyond. I don’t remember when blue was the chosen one, exactly; maybe when … Read more
patolette is a C / Python color quantization and dithering library. At its core, it implements a weighted variant of Xiaolin Wu’s PCA-based quantizer (not to be confused with the popular one from Graphics Gems vol. II, which is already … Read more
uchū demo · expanded palette the color scheme for internet loversby NetOperator Wibby Repo Simple Palette scroll oklch(95.57% 0.003 286.35) var(–uchu-gray-#) 1 2 oklch(92.04% 0.002 197.12) 3 oklch(88.28% 0.003 286.34) 4 oklch(84.68% 0.002 197.12) 5 oklch(80.73% 0.002 247.84) 6 oklch(75.03% 0.002 … Read more