{"id":354258,"date":"2010-02-22T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/luscious_abstract_color_compositions_of_advertisements.html"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:25:17","slug":"luscious-abstract-color-compositions-of-advertisements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354258","title":{"rendered":"Luscious: Abstract Color Compositions of Advertisements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"luscious.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/luscious.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hint.fm\/luscious\/\">luscious<\/a> [hint.fm] is an attempt to distill the visions of fashion designers and photographers, those who compose rousing images of light and color that fill the pages of glossy magazines, into poetic abstract compositions.<\/p>\n<p>To create the images in luscious, information designers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewitched.com\/\">Martin Wattenberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fernandaviegas.com\/\">Fernanda Vi\u00e9gas<\/a> began with a series of magazine advertisements for luxury brands. They then used a custom algorithm designed to extract &#8220;peak&#8221; colors from these picture. A random arrangement of concentric circles fills the plane, representing the essential colors of each region. The resulting image hides context and representation and lets the viewer concentrate on pure color.<\/p>\n<p>More information is also available on their <a href=\"http:\/\/hint.fm\/projects\/luscious\/\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CD0jtMTg2zz4yN1lXXmoB6iSWzk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CD0jtMTg2zz4yN1lXXmoB6iSWzk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CD0jtMTg2zz4yN1lXXmoB6iSWzk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CD0jtMTg2zz4yN1lXXmoB6iSWzk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:nQ_hWtDbxek\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=nQ_hWtDbxek\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=XRCzwdiJ1as:4vhijPdhIiU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/infosthetics\/~4\/XRCzwdiJ1as\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>luscious [hint.fm] is an attempt to distill the visions of fashion designers and photographers, those who compose rousing images of light and color that fill the pages of glossy magazines, into poetic abstract compositions. 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