Gaze at the New York City Sky Without Taking Your Eyes Off Your Screen

New York has been drizzling all over us here at Mashable HQ for the past week. I don’t know that because I’ve actually been outside (I’m practically glued to my desk), but because of the newly launched website, NSKYC.

NSKYC hit the web two days ago — on the Summer Solstice — courtesy of Mike Bodge, the creative director at Lolz LLC. The site has one purpose: It shows you the average color of the NYC sky, updating every five minutes.

Bodge wrote a program that hooks up to a webcam, which takes a photo out his office window every five minutes, uploading it to a server. “The server then reads the sky portion of the photo, and it goes pixel by pixel,” Bodge told the Village Voice. “What it does is it takes all those values, the RGB values, and it averages them. So what you are seeing is not the dominant color in the sky, it’s actually just the average color.”

Bodge hopes to expand the project into other cities. Hopefully he chooses sunnier locales, so at least we’ll have something pretty to look at while staring at our screens.

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