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Showing posts with label colors. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Miss Google

Miss Google

Some time ago I reported that the voice of Google Maps, whom I call Miss Google, seemed to be getting lazy. I facetiously said that she stopped wearing mascara and lipstick, and that more importantly she stopped naming specific streets and exit names.

It turns out the real Miss Google was quite offended by this. She said she absolutely did not stop wearing mascara and lipstick. But more importantly, she told me to set my phone setting in Google Maps to DEFAULT English, not simply English. That did solve my Google Maps problem.

I was curious what Miss Google looks like. She refused to tell me. I thought I could cleverly get around this by asking Gemini, the Google AI tool, but Gemini said it would violate Google's AI principles to share a picture.

Undeterred, I tried several other AI tools. Gencraft was happy to answer my question of what Miss Google looks like, and here is the answer:

Surprisingly, I got a number of responses from my original comment about Miss Google and lipstick. Now that I have an authoritative picture, I went to another site to determine her lipstick shade. That site identifies it as #91454C, which Carol tells me is a burgundy.

Happy to be of service in the world of data analysis.

plot(-10:10, -10:10, type = 'n',
axes = FALSE, xlab = NA, ylab = NA)
rect(-8, -8, 18, -4, col = '#91454C', border="blue")

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

8 Crayola Crayons

Many of my friends know I am color-challenged. Not colorblind; I see some colors, just not as many as most people see. I don't recall always being this way. In my earliest elementary school years I had a box of 8 Crayola crayons, and I did just fine. My problems began when Crayola started adding more and more colors including combinations like green yellow and yellow green. With nothing better to do, I just wrote a little program in R, and here are the original eight colors, which I still identify just fine. There is no meaning to the heights of the bars.

title <- c("Original 8 Crayola Crayons")
subtitle <- c("According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crayola_crayons")
temp <- c(5,7,6,4,8,5,2,5) # meaningless
colors <- c("red", "yellow", "blue", "green", "orange", "brown", "violet", "black")
hex <- c("#FF0000", "#FFFF00", "#0000FF", "#008001", "#FF6600", "#964B00", "#6A0DAD", "#000000")
barplot(temp, col=hex, main=title, sub=subtitle, names.arg=colors)