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I’m a graphics editor at The Washington Post, which means I’m part developer, part journalist. Graphics editors like me often rely on common wisdom and experiential knowledge to inform our decisions about design and visualization choices — which is incredibly valuable. (more…)
Finding the dominant colors of an image requires clustering of points in three-dimensional space. I initially planned to indulge in clustering algorithms and write my own k-means clustering in JavaScript, but after installing GraphicsMagick for decoding image files of various formats on the server I decided to put this plan off to another day and simply use the color quantization of GraphicsMagick. (more…)