Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: New release of monotone-viz

[Asger Ottar Alstrup]

Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> Yeah, I tried picking colors in HLS space (Hue, Lightness, Saturation)
> based on a hash. It gives adequate colors but with a dozen keys you're
> quite likely to get two colors with a similar hue, so I'd like to try
> something less "random".

Quantitize your color-space. Use only 8 different hues, 4 different 
saturations and 16 lightness values for a total of 512 different colors. 
If you still get too similar colours, reduce the number of colors even more.

Regards,
Asger Ottar Alstrup