$ echo myimage.png | colorific Seems a slightly odd way to get filenames. | Hacker News

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philjackson on May 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extracting Colors With Colorific

    $ echo myimage.png | colorific

Seems a slightly odd way to get filenames.

dhotson on May 11, 2012 [–]

It's because we're running this over millions of images. We don't want to pay the startup cost each time.

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