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Colour Naming Game

Dimitris Mylonas

Illustration by Valero Doval

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Instructions of Colour Naming Game

- CREATE teams of two, Player A (Alice) and Player B (Bob)

- Take an identical set of colour cards in your hands (1set consists of 16cards)

- Organise your cards by hue angle or according to perceptual similarities

- Alice select and describe a colour card to Bob by using only the best representative colour

name

- Bob try to find the card that best represents that colour name and present it to Alice

- When the two cards match the team wins a point, when they don’t match both players

lose

both cards, the described and the presented card.

- Bob describe a card to Alice and so on.

- The winning team is the one that will use all the cards and will match most of the cards in

10 min.

- Pile up the used cards, matched and not matched, and write down the name of the

matched cards.

- The game is about co-operation rather conflict

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Italian “Likely” Colour Names

MLE MAP1 'giallo' 'giallo'2 'marrone' 'marrone'3 'arancio' 'arancio'4 'salmone' 'rosa'5 'rosso' 'rosso'6 'vinaccia' 'vinaccia'7 fuxia 'rosa'8 'fuxia' 'fucsia'9 'fuxia' 'viola'

10 'indaco' 'viola'11 'indaco' 'celeste'12 'azzurro' 'azzurro'13 'verde_acqua' 'verde_acqua'14 'verde' 'verde'15 'verde_chiaro' 'verde_chiaro'16 'verde oliva' 'verde_acido'

Denominazione dei Colori

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English “Likely” Colour Names

MLE MAP1 'light yellow' 'yellow'2 'brown' 'brown'3 'orange' 'orange'4 'salmon pink' 'pink'5 'red' 'red'6 'plum' 'purple'7 'bright pink' 'pink'8 'hot pink' 'pink'9 'light purple' 'purple'

10 'indigo' 'blue'11 'blue' 'blue'12 'sky blue' 'sky blue'13'light turquoise''light green'14 'green' 'green'15 'lime' 'lime green'16 'khaki' 'olive'

Colour Names

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Comparison of Colour Naming Models (English)

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Maximum Likelihood: 30 colour names Maximum a Posteriori: 20 colour

names

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Design Goals of Research

• To determine broad multi-lingual sets of colour names in wide cultural use

• To determine regions in colour space corresponding to a broad set of

multilingual colour names

• To investigate the influence of viewing conditions on the location and

distribution of colour names

• To investigate the influence of culture on the location and distribution of

colour names

• To develop an online colour naming model to facilitate colour communication

across different cultures

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Presentations to the Public

1. Mylonas, D. (2009) A Colour Naming Investigation within Different Cultures, Oral Presentation, Digital Futures, Image

Physics & Psychophysics, Institute of Physics, London, UK, November 2009

2. Mylonas, D. (2009) An Online Colour Naming Model, Oral Presentation, Printing and Graphics Science Group Student

Conference, Institute of Physics, London, UK, December 2010

3. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2010) Locating Colour Names under different viewing conditions on the Net, Conf.

Create, Gjøvik, Norway, June 2010

4. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2010) Online Colour Naming Experiment Using Munsell Samples, Proc. CGIV 2010,

Joensuu, Finland, June 2010

5. MacDonald, L.W. and Mylonas, D. (2010) Edible Color Names, Proc. AIC 2010 Conf. on ‘Color and Food’, Mar del Plata,

Argentina, October 2010

6. Mylonas, D.,(2010) Colour Naming Workshop: Likely Colour Names Card Game, Create Workshops, Bristol, UK, October

2010

7. Mylonas, D., MacDonald, L.W. and Wuerger S. (2010) Towards an Online Colour Naming Model, Proc. CIC 2010 San

Antonio, US, November 2010

8. Mylonas, D.(2010), Oral Presentation, WD Wright Award, Online Colour Naming Experiment Using Munsell Samples, Colour

Group, London, UK, December 2010

9. Mylonas, D. and MacDonald, L.W. (2011) Colour Naming: Seeing the Trees within the Forest. In Colour Design: Theory &

Applications, ed Best, J., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK (forthcoming)

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…we can imaging

The “Colour Naming Game” was developed as part of CREATE in 2010

by Dimitri Mylona, Research Associate in Applied Colour Science, University of Liverpool, UK

the cards printed by Carinna Parraman at University of West England, Bristol, UK

Special thanks to Colour Group GB & Gruppo del Colore for promoting the online colour naming

experiment