A Color Coded Map of Nouns

Posted on July 12, 2006

Color Code is an interactive map of 33,000 words, grouped by meaning. The image on the right shows a zoomed-in view of words for flowers. The site says that each word is given the average color of web images found on Yahoo images when searching for that term.

For each word, we performed a Yahoo image search and retrieved 50 image results. (If fewer than 50 images were found, we deemed the word too obscure and discarded it.) Then for each image we averaged the values of the pixels in the middle and then averaged those 50 results. We brightened the colors slightly for display.
As you can see the flower map shows several different colors while the grass map shows mostly greens and browns. A Faq on the website said they used WordNet to come up with the 33,000 words for the color coded map.



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