Principle 3 in action: ColorCapture Ben

2009-09-28 19:28:08

Over the week­end I spent some time fool­ing around with an iPhone app called Col­or­Cap­ture Ben .? The way it works is you take a photo of a color you like using your iPhone, and then this app from Ben­jamin Moore shows you the clos­est match­ing color chip from their col­lec­tion, and then serves up a list­ing of com­pli­men­tary col­ors and so forth.? I found that it works equally well sam­pling a Barnett-Newman style solid color field as it does mix­ing across the var­i­ous col­ors found in a Seurat-like shot of a lawn.? Even if you’re not in the mar­ket for some new paint, it’s a won­der­ful source of quiet, adult enter­tain­ment if you ever find your­self, say, attend­ing a live per­for­mance of music designed for the toddler-preschooler demo­graphic.? As I fre­quently am.

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Prin­ci­ple 3 in action: Col­or­Cap­ture Ben