Automatically generate color

[Nghtcrwlr]

I need to create different color codes ( like 10, 20 or even more colors depending on number of parameters). i.e for  n number of parameters i should have n different colors.
At the moment in this example i have only 4 color codes ( 1,0,0;0,1,0;0,0,1;1,0,1)

Is there a way to generate color codes automatically?? Or any other ideas??

Thanks

[Freelance_LV · Accepted solution]

hi i just tried out something. check if it is suitable to you.

[mikeporter]

The problem is not going to be generating the colors, the problem is going to be finding operators that can distinguish between that many similar colors. You would be amazed as to how common color blindness really is.

Some studies put the number as high as 20% of the adult male population have some measurable degree of color blindness- though among women the rate is a couple orders of magnitude lower. There are also variations along racial lines with Asian tending to having the best color vision and Caucasians having the worst.

What is it exactly that you are trying to do?

Mike...

[GerdW]

Beside color blindness problems:

You could create your colors using the HSV color model. It's more easy to create different colors using this model instead of the "standard" RGB color model!

- You simply need to change hue values (with constant saturation and value)...

- When you need a lot more colors you could also change the saturation to get shades of colors.

All information needed is found on Wikipedia...

[Nghtcrwlr]

Thankyou all for your reply.

Freelance_LV solution is perfect for my application. What i need was just to use these generated colors as legends for a plot.

Ya of course some values for color multiplier in Freelance_LV VI may cause real problem in distingsuishing the colors. I tried to use HSV.But making the saturation and lightness values constant makes it generate just a single color. And I find it difficult to choose a good constant value for both.

[GerdW]

Hi Nghtcrwlr,

good start values for saturation and value are 100% (saturated colors). Then hue just changes the color across the rainbow...

[Nghtcrwlr]

Do you mean  using HSL bitman like this?

But there is no change in color value. See attachment

[GerdW]

missing subVI...

[Nghtcrwlr]

sorry. I placed them from function palette.Here are the subvis

[GerdW]

Hi Nghtcrwlr,

maybe you should change the Hue value in your FOR loop when you want to change colors? As by now you only use static values...