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Adam Byrd

@demofox I vaguely recall a blog post about using the golden ratio to select from a set of values in a way that was maximally spread out. The particular use case I'm remembering was selecting colors programmatically. Was that you? I can't find it now.

Adam Byrd

@demofox Ah, found it.

martin.ankerl.com/2009/12/09/h

I originally found it through a link in one of your posts which is why I thought you might have written it.

blog.demofox.org/2017/05/29/wh

Martin Leitner-AnkerlHow to Generate Random Colors ProgrammaticallyCreating random colors is actually more difficult than it seems. The randomness itself is easy, but aesthetically pleasing randomness is more difficult. For a little project at work I needed to automatically generate multiple background colors with the following properties: Text over the colored background should be easily readable Colors should be very distinct The number of required colors is not initially known Naïve Approach The first and simplest approach is to create random colors by simply using a random number between [0, 256[ for the R, G, B values. I have created a little Ruby script to generate sample...
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demofox

@abyrd Yeah i've written up a lot on that subject. Martin's color selection is a great example that is easy to understand and also very useful. We used that in team 0's engine for material index visualization!

If you need more references on the topic...

blog.demofox.org/2020/07/26/ir

youtube.com/watch?v=tethAU66xa

I also have a "stateless, seedable, invertible low discrepancy shuffle iterator" in 1D and 2D if you ever need it 😂

blog.demofox.org/2024/10/04/a-

The blog at the bottom of the sea · Irrational NumbersAn irrational number is a number that can’t be represented as a fraction using integers for the numerator and denominator. I’m a big fan of irrational numbers, and one of the biggest re…
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