A programmer has created these stunning graphs to reveal the dominant colour of artworks through history. 一个程序员通过分析得出了一组很棒的图表,表明历史上的诸多画作中使用最多的颜色是橙色。 They show Orange has always been the most popular colour - although in recent years blue has begun to catch up. 这些图表显示橙色一度是画作中最流行的颜色,但是最近几年蓝色开始受到画家们的青睐。 'I made a visualization of the change in colors of paintings over time,' said Martin Bellander, a PhD student in psychology at the Karolinska Institute who created the graph. 卡罗林斯卡医学院心理系的博士生马丁·柏兰德制作了这些图表,他说:“我做的这些图表形象地展示了以往画作中画家们对橙色的偏爱程度。 To do this, he wrote software first to scrape the images of the paintings from sites where they were available for free download - BBC, Google Art Project, Wikiart, Wikimedia commons, and various museums. 为了做这些图表,他首先制作了一款软件,把从各大网站上免费下载的画作图片放在一起进行分析。 Then, the software extract the relevant colour information from them, and plots it in a nice way. 这款软件能够从这些画作图片中提取相关的颜色信息,并以图表形式给出结果。 |