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by jcattle 41 days ago
That's pretty cool. In a similar but very different vein: A few years ago I took twenty years of daily satellite imagery and computed the mean color for countries and the world https://www.landshade.com/

But in doing that you really do notice how everything concerning colors is just a bit arbitrary. You get raw reflectances from a scientific sensor on a satellite with specific spectral bands and sensitivity within those bands. And then you try and map this scientific sensor to the sensor that is your eyes, to try and emulate what we would actually see if shot up into space.

There's some really cool science around that if you're a color nerd: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442571...

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Landshade: Nice work. Would be cool to be able to find similar ones across the globe, compare selected country color profiles, etc.
Yes, you could do a lot more with the data. The only other thing I did was a wordle style guessing game: https://guess.landshade.com

But the data is open source, so if you want to dig around my badly documented code and raw satellite data yourself, be my guest: https://github.com/jonasViehweger/LandShade/tree/main/data