2007-07-17 16:44:24 by Pete Hindle in Friends, OSE, Regular (no comments) permalink
Two of my friends, Clare Ruddock and Ele Carpenter, are working on a project they are calling Open Source Embroidery. As part of this project, they are making a patchwork quilt, made up of six-sided patches, with each patch a different colour from the 216 listed ‘web-safe’ colours. This is an open project, and anybody can submit a colour swatch using the handy list which they are creating using google docs, join their Facebook group, read about the project on their respective blogs. Hurrah for web 2.0.
Now, if each patch has a number in hex notation embroidered on top, that makes this it visualisation of the hexadecimal notation scheme. The wikipedia page also points out that there are several words you can spell in hex, including c0ffee, which works in the paired-triad format that these HTML patchwork colours are represented in. For those who are wondering, c0ffee is a pale blue.
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