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		impjohn on March 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use Very cool. How are you extracting the colors from the image? Trying to do something similar but without yielding anything I'm happy with

stefanvdw1 on March 15, 2024 [–]

Thanks! Some of the artworks have the colors as part of their metadata, so I directly use those.

For a different project I’m looking in into using k-means to determine the dominant colors.

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