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Re: decorative random colors algorithm

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On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:15:11 +0000, JohnF wrote:

> However, it still looks a bit "washed out" to my eye. But pushing the
> exponents (1/3 and 2) too much just "degenerates" the palette to rgb.
> So maybe my whole idea is just no good. Is there some standard,
> or not-so-standard, way to choose random rgb numbers that both
> (a) remain pretty much random, and that also (b) make the resulting
> image more "vibrant" to the eye (whatever that quantitatively means;
> I can tell what it subjectively means just by looking)?

IOW, you want more saturation. Using an HSL or HSV colour space is one
solution.

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

If you just want maximum saturation, an alternative is to modify your
original approach. Set the largest to 1, the smallest to 0, and leave the
middle one alone. That will give you a uniformly-distributed point on the
path:

	Red - Yellow - Green - Cyan - Blue - Magenta - Red

i.e. all of the edges of the RGB colour cube which don't have black or
white as an endpoint.

The original approach doesn't have quite as much saturation (the highest
and lowest are moved closer to 1.0 and 0.0 rather than all the way),
while moving the middle one closer to zero results in a bias toward
red, green and blue.

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decorative random colors algorithm JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-07-01 12:15 +0000
  Re: decorative random colors algorithm gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-07-01 07:59 -0700
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        Re: decorative random colors algorithm Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2012-07-04 09:03 -0400
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