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April 30, 2014 at 2:00 am
So I want to create a color identifier that that adjust to the lighting in the room. I'm not very techy but does anyone have any ideas?
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April 30, 2014 at 3:16 am
What's a colour identifier?
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April 30, 2014 at 3:23 am (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 3:29 am by BrokenQuill92.)
(April 30, 2014 at 3:16 am)fr0d0 Wrote: What's a colour identifier?

It's a camera-like device that helps the visually impaired with colors. Basically you hold it up to something and it tells you the color. However when the lighting changes the stupid device says another hue or color, and it doesn't identify patterned or multicolored things at all, so it's useless 70% of the time!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-id...46987?mt=8
http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pag...&top=32565

For the second link the Colorino is the most popular but it's still shitty
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April 30, 2014 at 3:44 am
Wow I'd never heard of that. Nice gismo. So could you not use it with a torch? Torches have colour temperatures don't they, so it'd have to be calibrated. Does the phone app not work with the phones torch?
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April 30, 2014 at 3:48 am
Torch? Light a flashlight? No it doesn't work in conjunction with the phone flashlight. And as I say the problem is more about consistent results, not lighting. Something cherry red should stay cherry red, not turn hot pink the next time I use me identifier.
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April 30, 2014 at 3:54 am
Methinks you want something closer to Google goggles...
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April 30, 2014 at 3:57 am (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 3:59 am by fr0d0.)
(April 30, 2014 at 3:48 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Torch? Light a flashlight? No it doesn't work in conjunction with the phone flashlight. And as I say the problem is more about consistent results, not lighting. Something cherry red should stay cherry red, not turn hot pink the next time I use me identifier.
Lighting would provide a consistent hue and thus consistent colour readings.

Better if you could isolate the light source to be only your torch.
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April 30, 2014 at 4:01 am
(April 30, 2014 at 3:54 am)pocaracas Wrote: Methinks you want something closer to Google goggles...

Yeah... Don't think that'll work so well for me. Don't you need sight for those?
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April 30, 2014 at 4:02 am
I'd offer to help, but I'm not frightfully tech-savvy. When someone told me I could listen to the radio via my computer, I spent an hour looking for that wee dial that tunes in the stations.

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April 30, 2014 at 10:59 am (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 10:59 am by pocaracas.)
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