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from the the-default-SN-color-is-pretty-close-to-Grass-Bat dept.
So if you've ever picked out paint, you know that every infinitesimally different shade of blue, beige, and gray has its own descriptive, attractive name. Tuscan sunrise, blushing pear, Tradewind, etc... There are in fact people who invent these names for a living. But given that the human eye can see millions of distinct colors, sooner or later we're going to run out of good names. Can AI help?
For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue color values) Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?
The answer, not surprisingly, is no. But some of them are hilarious. My own personal favorites are Gray Pubic (close to aqua blue), Clardic Fug (brownish green), and Stanky Bean (inexplicably a rather nice dusty rose).
http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday May 22 2017, @05:54AM
If you manage to grow a new color of iris, the Iris Society lets you name it. I had a volunteer iris bloom in unfortunate shades of brown and yellow, quite possibly the ugliest flower ever. I named it "Blood and Vomit".
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.