www.gizmag.com: Have you ever seen something while you were out walking around, and thought "That's just the color I'd like to paint my living room"? Well, if you had a SwatchMate Color Capturing Cube, you could act on that thought. It lets you sample colors as you come across them, so you can exactly reproduce them on a graphics program or even in a paint store.
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I use the color picker tool a lot when I use graphics programs on the computer. The Cube seems to be a color picker tool for the real world. I don't think that I really need a real world color picker in my life, but I can think of a lot of people that do. For example an kind of graphics designer would find this super useful. I can also see theatre designers using this to capture colors that they see and want to use in the future. I don't know all that much about the painting that scenic painters or costume designers do, but I can imagine that color matching (on to a computer) could be very helpful. For example if you mix one paint color and want to be able to record the color, you could use the cube. The cube seems to be all about moving color from the real world to the digital world. That's fine, but often in theatre we want things to end up as real world colors and thus this won't be that helpful for us. I do have a few questions about this product. 1.How accurate is it? 2.How easy is it to set up with different programs? 3.Can it detect things like the type of finish? 4. Can it work on objects with textures that have many colors next to each other?
Interesting concept, but I don't know how much use this product would receive. I believe the eye drop tool on the computer works perfectly fine for choosing colors and a special device seems very impractical. I understand that colors are very important, but with technology these days we can simply capture color with our smartphones. This device won't even come out until June 2014 and comes with a heavy price of $75. I can't imagine the market for this product to be too large, for how many people would spend that kind of money on something that can capture a disappointing amount of a mere 20 colors. The device isn't instant either and takes a few seconds to capture the color and in all the examples presented in the video the color has to be taken from a flat surface with good lighting. I can see maybe graphic designers needing one of these machines, but everyone else I think can deal without. Once you have this color you can use it on your computer, but thats about it. Sounds like a waste of money in my opinion and we have more important things in life we need to be spending our money on.
This seems like a cool product, but I am not sure how practical it is. Most people will not want to be carrying around a cube everywhere they go, even if it is small. As Keith said, their are already tools on the computer that can achieve the same thing this cube achieves. I do appreciate the idea of being able to determine the exact color of something that is not on a computer, such as something in nature or something simply encountered in everyday life. However, as I said, I do not see people carrying this cube with them, and I think it would end up being a waste of a purchase for most people. It would be great if this same technology could somehow be developed into a reliable app for a smart phone, since almost everyone carries their smart phones with them everywhere they go.
Okay, so maybe I'm missing a brain cell or something, but I think it's genius! (Maybe, the video brainwashed me...) It's true! I have seen colors that I love and that I want to use but can't because once I go looking for the color, I either forget exactly what the color is (and everything just looks wrong) or the picture that I took made it darker/lighter than it really is. I mean, I guess it's kind of a silly idea, but it is definitely clever. Colors are just so beautiful and even though there are a lot of colors in the world, theres even more that the benjamin moore paint chips wall at home depot doesn't even have! It would be so convenient if you could see it and get it. I'm sort of trailing off and so I will come to my little wish upon a star! I wish there was a machine or something that could connect to my mind and swatch the color or type of fabric that I am imagining. Or even just a machine that could hook my imagination to a 3d printer. Oh if only life were so easy!
Although this color picker cube is indeed very cool and innovative and probably useful for a number of designs, I am curious as to how well it actually will sell to audiences. Unless people are constantly painting houses or doing design work on computers, it seems a lot of artists will still have to mix their own colors. Even then, I'm not entirely sure if artists will want to use it all the time. there are different variations of leafy green that go with different palettes and lighting in different spaces changes colors drastically. Maybe if I find my self constantly wanting colors from outside my reach i would consider getting it, but for now I don't really see a great use for it.
This is a cool idea, but I think that a good smartphone app could easily achieve the same effect. The cameras on most modern phones are more than capable of capturing enough data to discern colors. While I appreciate the idea of this device, I doubt it will sell to well as many people will not want to buy a device for more than $30 that performs only a single function, and a relatively obscure one at that.
This is super neat. I've seen something similar that is a pen and allows you to digitally draw in the scanned color. This is a great development for digital and physical artists alike. One thing I noticed, however, is that the scanning does not seem to be extremely accurate. The color matching appears to not be able to pick up small differences in value and neutralized colors. If this were able to be more accurate (and perhaps be able to store more than 10 colors) then, I would not hesitate to get one.
We encounter so many interesting colors everyday that I could see how this tool would be useful for an artist. However, I don't think that it is a necessity. You can mix so many new an interesting colors digitally now, that it would be easy to duplicate a color inspired by something you saw on the street. You can even take and upload a photo of a color and gain digital access to it that way. There are just so many cheaper ways to build a color pallette on a digital device these days that I can't see a real need that this product fills.
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