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I want to use something similar like this for one of my projects - to identify the dominant color of a book cover. Any plans to release an API for this?
First and foremost, thank you Chris for hunting Vaunt. I appreciate it. As a web developer and IOS developer there are countless of times where I’m getting inspiration from sites like Dribbble and selectively extracting colors with eyedropper tools. Most of the colors I needed were the most dominant colors from the image and so I wanted a tool that would easily extract dominant colors and save the hex values to my clipboard to use in my projects. Not only that, I wanted the tool to be easily accessible which is why I made Vaunt into a mac menu bar application.
This was not only an opportunity to get rid of the tedious process of opening applications to do this, but also an opportunity to hone my Machine Learning skills. Vaunt uses a clustering algorithm (K-Means algorithm) in such a way as to extract the most prominent colors within the image (there are some optimization algorithms as well to increase the level of accuracy of the clustering algorithm). Currently, Vaunt is only for Mac, but I plan on extending it to multiple platforms. Currently Vaunt gives you the hex value in your clipboard, but that will be extended to formats such as UIColor, etc in subsequent updates. I hope you all enjoy using the tool as I do.
@_guled_ This is pretty cool, totally see how I can use this
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What an awesome time saving idea! I just gave it a quick test & the colors were way off though.
I used an image where the dominant colors were bright red #c7252b & grey #4e4d4b. Vaunt returned #603C3C & #00000.
@michaele_harrington Thank you for trying out Vaunt Michaele. Vaunt uses a clustering algorithm to determine which colors from the image are dominant. The algorithm makes approximations as to what color is the most dominant. The nature of this algorithm (sometimes) is to produce the darker variants of the most dominant colors (the colors with the white borders on the app). To account for this, various shades of the approximate dominant color are provided to you. If you did not see any shades close to #c7252b. Please let me know. I'm currently working on increasing the accuracy of the algorithm.
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@_guled_ Thanks so much for your reply. If the colors were close, I wouldn't have thought anything. But they were WAY off. Would you like me to send you the image I used as a test?
Thanks a lot for this, it will definitely come in very handy. TBH, I downloaded it after a quick glance and while it was setting up, I was getting super excited that it was a tool that easily extracted ( as in removed for me ) the primary colours. Right now I use something similar to Photoshop for my Mac called Affinity Photo, and it is a tedious process trying to remove solid background colors of complex images... maybe something you could build in the future. Anyways, this will be very useful as well, thanks!
P.S: Just looked up your algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-... ) and damn, did you have to know this match to make this? Any useful guides on how we can make similar apps for learning? Would really appreciate it :) .
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