Company
Date Published
Author
Skip Everling
Word count
1227
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

A tutorial outlines the process of creating a web app using Clarifai's computer vision technology to extract color palettes from images, which can be used for design purposes. The guide emphasizes the importance of signing up for a Clarifai account to obtain an API key, which is essential for accessing Clarifai's "Color" model. It provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files necessary to build the app, explaining how to structure the webpage, style elements, and implement functionality using the Clarifai JavaScript SDK. The JavaScript component involves ensuring the webpage's responsiveness, connecting to Clarifai's API, and defining a function to predict colors in an image, which are then displayed to the user. The tutorial highlights the use of jQuery and tinycolor libraries to enhance code efficiency and manage colors, and it concludes by encouraging readers to explore building their own applications using computer vision.