processing. prettycolors

the amount of time between posts in the last year has been too much. i'm going to try and blog more regularly, instead of just blogging my final projects i'm going to start posting little snippets, as well as successes and failures in between.

i present to you a class for pulling colors from the tumblr blog http://prettycolors.tumblr.com/. i like the simplicity of the blog and the idea of color palettes being dynamic and changing over time (that and sites like kuler and colour lovers are covered)



this class grabs colors from the site and i built in rudimentary (and not yet complete) palette creation options. palettes are groups of five colors, which can be accessed getPalette(int type, int num). the default is to load the first 50 colors (max as allowed by the tumblr api), but this can be altered by changing the value of numToReturn.

the types of palettes available and created upon instantiation of the class (for faster access) are as follows:

ORDER palettes based on posting order, most recent colors appear first
BRIGHTNESS palettes based on brightness* (default creates 10 palettes)
COMPLEMENT palettes of complementary* colors (default creates 10 palettes)
RANDOM palettes of random colors (default uses the 50 most recent colors)
RANDOM_ALL palettes of random colors (uses all posted colors)

* implementation is very very very rudimentary, if not downright wrong



in addition to creating palettes, palettes can also be "exported" as .png files for later use (for example using my FPalette class as part of my incomplete frederickk processing library)



below is an example that uses the Prettycolors.pde class to create the above application. in this example palettes can be "exported" as .png files by clicking the mouse, palettes can be refreshed by pressing the spacebar.



* as with most of the things found on this blog, the code works for me (osx 10.6.7, processing 1.5.1) but i make no guarantees that it will work for you. however, feel free to update and hack anything useful out it. just let me know and please keep a link to this blog or my github repositories

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