Something fun for Friday. I pulled out almost all the content for this post from the comment section of More images from the Spatial Results Tab.
The one thing that I learned (and might be news to you) is the reason that Microsoft’s spatial results tab has such bland faded colors. It turns out that these colors have a certain amount of transparency applied to them so on a white background, they seem faded. But this also means that overlapping colors are combined!
Overlapping colors in the Spatial Results Tab
And transparent colors means a larger palette to play with without using the more faded colors! So I first take this source photo:
I reduce the color depth to the colors in my palette:
and with C# and the usual magic I get:
SQL Self Portrait (Click to embiggen)
With only six “polygons”. For the curious, the query itself is here but I’m warning you, uncompressed it’s 260 kb and it takes some time to run.
Happy Friday
