RE: Proposal: VisualArtwork

Hi Thad,

The percentage property describes how dominant a color is in the particular object (ie the intensity of the color). It is useful when you want to search or harmonize based on a specific color (and intensity). For example, if I want search for "crimson red" images that are either used as a dominant color or accent color, this property would help. The other example would be to choose complementary or analogous colors based on color distribution. This property will also help in understanding the overall composition of the object (strong or subtle, bright or dark etc).

Thanks for the nice notes on our discovery tool..

-Thanigai.

From: Thad Guidry [mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:07 PM
To: public-vocabs@w3.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: VisualArtwork

Thanigai,

Thanks for the references and links.

I do have one question:  Why the use of the percentage property ?  Where would the use of that property be beneficial for a person analyzing it, or even software somewhere ?  To me the other 2 properties make sense and I see their usefulness in capturing it generically as possible. But I do not see the broad usefulness of the percentage property, even for a software tool or person doing a query for a set of ColorSwatches ?  Can you explain its usefulness to lay persons such as us on this list ?

( BTW, your labs.art.com<http://labs.art.com> link is an amazing discovery tool with ColorSwatches ! Nice ! )


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Thanigai Vellore <TVellore@art.com<mailto:TVellore@art.com>> wrote:
Hi Thad,

Currently, a lot of websites express palettes on their pages but there is no standards in expressing them semantically. I have provided links to some websites (and industries) that I have seen expose palettes:
https://www.pantone.com/pages/MYP_myPantone/mypPaletteDetail.aspx?p_id=4894&p_type=p_detail
http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/2899175/
https://kuler.adobe.com/Theme-4-color-theme-2589222/
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/color-gallery#&ce_vm=2&ce_trd=YHL

There are a lot of studies about the colors used by artists in artworks to extract his information. For example, if you look at here (http://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/10-free-color-palettes-from-10-famous-paintings/ and http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/20/color-inspiration-from-the-masters-of-painting ), color palettes for famous artworks are expressed.

The design industry (Web design, fashion design) and decor industry (art, interior design) heavily uses color swatches and palettes. We are also working on expressing color palettes for artwork (in a semantic way) that we showcase on our site.
(http://labs.art.com/judy/app.html#!/harmonize/?=&p=2F6872-9BB7B3-F0F0E7-F9F6E7&mid=5)

-Thanigai.

From: Thad Guidry [mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com<mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:14 AM

To: public-vocabs@w3.org<mailto:public-vocabs@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: VisualArtwork

Thanks Thanigai,

Can you point us to some references out there that have some data around the usage of a ColorSwatch ?

Existing data sources that have the metadata to fill in a ColorSwatch properly ?

Which industry systems or software uses the concept Type of a ColorSwatch that you know of ?  or is this an internal model that your developing ?

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