Dynamic Color Generator Interface for Contextual Palette Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional color palettes and pickers limit the ability to identify and create new colors, especially when colors are arranged in a grid format, making it difficult to generate contextual colors from existing sets.
Innovation Solution
A color generator interface featuring synopsis and component nodes, where users can manipulate component nodes to adjust their influence on a synopsis color, using halo interactions and luminosity to create combined colors, allowing for the visualization and generation of new colors based on input colors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If colors are arranged in a grid or list format in conventional color palettes, then the color picker presents a finite set of colors for selection, but identifying new color possibilities and creating contextual colors becomes limited and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static grid color palette into a dynamic node-based system where colors are represented as nodes that can be manipulated, moved, and combined. Users can drag nodes to adjust their positions and influence on the synthesized color, enabling real-time color generation based on node arrangements rather than selecting from a fixed grid.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter representation from fixed grid positions to continuous spatial coordinates. Each color node can be positioned at any location within the interface area, and its influence on the synthesized color is determined by its position and weight, allowing for infinite color variations rather than limited grid options.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the number of colors presented in a color palette varies based on pixel depth, then the system adapts to different display capabilities, but the finite set of colors limits creativity and contextual color generation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the color generation process into independent controllable nodes, each representing a base color or color component. Users can add, remove, or adjust individual nodes to create desired color combinations, breaking down the complex task of color selection into simpler node manipulation operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary synthesis mechanism that combines the influence of multiple color nodes to generate the final synthesized color. This intermediary process allows the system to work with a small set of fundamental nodes while producing a vast range of contextual colors through their combined influence.
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AI summary
One exemplary embodiment involves a computer-implemented method that comprises rendering, by a processor, an interface comprising a synopsis node and a plurality of configurable component nodes, each of the component nodes corresponding to a respective color, and the synopsis node having a color that is a combination of the colors of the synopsis node. The method additionally includes, receiving, by the processor, input changing an influence of a first component node and determining, by the processor, a change in the color of the synopsis node based on the received input, wherein the change represents a combination of the colors of the component nodes. Additionally, the method includes rendering, by the processor, the changed synopsis node color in the synopsis node.