New Degrafa/ColourLovers Mashup: DekafLovers
I got a communication from Darius at ColourLovers that they were starting up an API for their fantastic site ColourLovers. He wanted some examples of what people could do with the API, and since I had done some work with color APIs before, specifically, Kuler, he wanted to know if I was interested. Of course I was, and so, DekafLovers was made. A simple interface to ColourLovers deep deep palette library (significantly larger than Kuler’s, actually), it creates randomized compositions using rectangular geometry drawn by the Degrafa drawing library. A variation on the Kuler powered, Dekaf, this only took a couple hours to port over in Flex and test. Darius was really cool about it and got a crossdomain file set up for other Flash/Flex developers, to make mashups, etc with, so go to town… All in all a lot of fun, and I really want to build something else with the api, perhaps using the patterns also resident at ColourLovers. So without further delay… Here is Dekaf Lovers.
Posted on March 19, 2008
Juan Mar 24
Great stuff, Chad! Does the COLOURlovers API include the patterns they host on their site as well? Might be kinda cool to see some random bitmap or complex fills in there with random geometry.
Chad Mar 24
It does indeed…. very cool, too… I hope to get a chance to build a few more things in the API, the content on that site is great. Glad you are liking it.