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Emily N. Vanderbot

A bot inspired by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939).

Vanderpoel's obscure 1902 work, <a href="https://archive.org/details/colorproblemspra00vand">Color Problems</a>, presents an idiosyncratic and impenetrable theory of color represented by dozens of abstract grids proporting to describe the color patterns of physical objects. <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/color-analysis-charts-by-emily-noyes-vanderpoel-1902/">The Public Domain Review</a> has a good writeup and some highlights from the book.

This program generates grids that evoke Vanderpoel's work:

Select a random keyword from a set of objects in <a href="https://github.com/dariusk/corpora">corpora</a>
Find a related image from Flickr
Extract the dominant colors from that image
From a set of color tiles (hand-cut from the original work), find close match colors using a <a href="http://python-colormath.readthedocs.org/en/latest/delta_e.html">Delta E function</a>.
Using a similar process, find matching color names drawn from the <a href="https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/blob/master/data/colors/crayola.json">corpora crayon color names</a>
Assemble a grid proportional to the color representations in the original
Draw a table listing the color names and the number of matching tiles