DCS Revised: A Better Color Scheme

[TheFederalist]

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Finally, the Indian Ocean, and hence Africa and the entirety of the Old World, is done. I'll update the WIP in the OP. Should I go straight to the Americas next, or detour to the miscellaneous sections?

I vote for the Americas to finish up the continents, then do the miscellaneous stuff. Keep up the great work!

 

[erictom333]

After a long break (I lost interest, plus schoolwork and studying), Canada is done.

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

I love your DCS sections, @erictom333 - how can I or we give you some motivation or interest back which you lost?

 

[MrVulcan]

I lost interest

Come on, you can do it! We're all rooting for you!

 

[thatsnowpea]

Probably the wrong time to say, but I have an idea for some new landmarks.

 

[erictom333]

Sorry for the long delay, I was busy with exams and lost interest. Now that exams are done I can resume this project; the eastern US will be coming very soon.

 

[erictom333]

And here it is.

 

[erictom333]

The western half of the US is now done, again sorry for the wait.

+ 1 new color in BC

 

[MrVulcan]

@erictom333
I was actually going to ask you what the holdup was, but I decided to wait a little longer.

 

[Bytor]

Even in MS Paint it's easy, just open another tab and copy whatever section you're using, then paste it somewhere.

I do all my mapping in QGIS, so when I finish a country shape a dialog box pops up and I enter various attributes, like name, colour & border colour as HTML colour triplets, start date, end date, etc…and so on. Then I export to SVG and the colours & borders are already there, I basically just add styling.

 

[MrVulcan]

The western half of the US is now done, again sorry for the wait.
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+ 1 new color in BC
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Why isn't there a color for a Chinese America?

 

[Bytor]

Sorry for the delay, I was busy with school and other unrelated projects. Anyways, here's East India and Burma.
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No Cachar/Kachari? The Cachar Kingdom included modern day Dima Hasao, Cachar, Karimganj, and Hailagandi in Assam.

 

[erictom333]

No Cachar/Kachari? The Cachar Kingdom included modern day Dima Hasao, Cachar, Karimganj, and Hailagandi in Assam.

That'd use the existing Dima Hasao color.

 

[Bytor]

I wrote a Python script to scan the PNG images and extract the colours and text to CSV files as HTML codes, RGB and HSL triplets. Because of the tiny font size and non-antialiased nature, the OCR results are a bit wonky, but the colour recognition is fine.

I also made a Google Sheets spreadsheet with some attached Apps script code that, after importing one of the generated CSV files into it, can colourize the appropriate columns for each row that was filled. For those who just want to look, I am slowly adding individual tabs for each set of colours. If you duplicate the spreadsheet to your own Google Drive, it will duplicate the Apps script as well. They will not remain linked. You will need to authorize it to run

The spreadsheet, separate Apps script code, and the Python code can be found here.

 

[thatsnowpea]

What if there was a color for a state based on child/orphan labor? It could be combined with southern Colorado as there is a river there know as Huerfano (orphan in Spanish).

 

[erictom333]

What if there was a color for a state based on child/orphan labor? It could be combined with southern Colorado as there is a river there know as Huerfano (orphan in Spanish).

Not notable enough for a color, and even if it did it'd go in the back sections with the ideology colors.

 

[MrVulcan]

@erictom333

When's the next update coming?

 

[erictom333]

@erictom333

When's the next update coming?

Unfortunately it'll be a while, I've been busy with other projects.

 

[MrVulcan]

Unfortunately it'll be a while, I've been busy with other projects.

I've been there.

 

[erictom333]

Anyways here's Mexico done after a long period of inactivity.