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I came here thinking “why use ML for this?” and this is specifically addressed: > You might ask at this point, if we can enumerate all possible solutions…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"30532795","educaysean","I opened it with a skeptical eye and walked away completely impressed. Despite the odd dissonances that pop up at intervals, many of the palettes produced are not only trendy and…",{"value":61,"source":50,"evidence":62},"Graphic and web designers",[63,67],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"30529994","armchairhacker","I’ve used multiple color palette generators and this is definitely one of the best. Besides the ML, showing the colors on images like a phone and real web pages is really…",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"30531614","xingped","This is amazing! I love it! Actually needed this kind of thing right now to figure out a color scheme for a website. 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Clear description, beautiful visualizations... looks like a true labor of love.",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"30533404","tqi","This was really cool project and a great writeup! It's interesting to think what would happen if a tool \u002F technique like this one became super popular. Would we see more…",{"value":104,"source":50,"evidence":105},"Demo pages and 3D point cloud landing page are impressive",[106,107,111],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"30530680","ChrisMarshallNY","That's really cool! I like the various demos of the themes. I need to play with it some more, and understand how to use it, but good job!",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"30529757","hwers","Really gorgeous visualization! 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I'd imagine a series of left\u002Fright comparisons, like a visit to an eye doctor, where the machine…",{"value":132,"source":50,"evidence":133},"Locking colors and generate behavior is confusing UX",[134,138,141],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"30536027","airstrike","I love the ML angle but honestly struggled to use the tool. 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It'd be nice if the colors picked were saved in the url, so that you can use history to navigate the different patterns generated.",{"id":139,"by":136,"text":140},{"value":181,"source":50,"evidence":182},"Extract colors from uploaded image to build palette",[183],{"id":184,"by":143,"text":185},"30534002","This is nice. Once of my favorite palette tools is coolors.co, and they have a nice feature that let's you hit spacebar for a new palette. Would be useful here too I think. Also…",{"value":187,"source":50,"evidence":188},"Support more than 12 colors or run locally",[189],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"30536819","fire","I'd love to see this with more colors so I could generate syntax highlighting schemes with it :D ( the api caps out at 12 colors ) Is there a way to run this locally?",[194,202],{"value":195,"source":50,"evidence":196},"How to lock colors and use generate",[197,198],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},{"id":199,"by":200,"text":201},"30531745","rambambram","Wow, nice job! I clicked around and got the same color palettes on multiple occasions. Is that because I have to give the system some input for it to work? Your websites are…",{"value":203,"source":50,"evidence":204},"Whether it can restrict to physical thread or paint color sets",[205],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"30532064","shadowoflight","This is fantastic, and I will definitely use it for personal projects in the future! I see a few requests for practical features here, but I have one incredibly silly request:…",[210,217],{"value":211,"source":50,"evidence":212},"Adobe Kuler",[213],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"30531321","bduerst","Usually I just got to Adobe kuler to find color schemes for projects: https:\u002F\u002Fcolor.adobe.com\u002Fexplore But this project creates some pretty good ones on the fly. 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