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What don't you understand? It defies conventional color science and is steeped in the esoteric knowledge of the early 20th century.

It is a very nice palette generator, but I really dislike all the talk of magic/mysticism/sorcery/witchcraft. It's a dang color generator, ease up on the dungeon master language.

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on the other hand, i like the "theme" - i'm a sucker for that mix of "wizardry" metaphor with programming stuff.

I'm reminded for instance of this fun little post:

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

It feels a little bit ai generated there, or maybe just padded out marketing copy - more adjectives and superlatives than I'd expect from a technical site at least. Telling you how to call it to get a "mesmerizing" palette for example

I can handle some purple mysticism prose but I did want like a comparison of a few palettes from this polar system vs some traditional plane ones. If the creator reads this thread that's my note

It defies explanation. This is followed up by an explantation.

Defied unsuccessfully.

Why do you feel so strongly that someone shouldn't invent a tool/doohickey/fun experience that isn't purely based around being a utility? The creator of this isn't taking away from the plethora of already available "conventional colour science" orientated tools.

I don't feel strongly about that at all? I was saying I didn't understand from the description what's actually different between this tool and the conventional ones and I wanted some information there about that. A compare / contrast example would have worked nicely.

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