Gradual Color Engine

[EmmanuelDodoo]

The current implementation of gradual colors by the color engine produces colors which quickly become indistinguishable. On a dark theme, the resulting colors tend to approach black. A better implementation is needed to make successive colors distinguishable for longer.

Example on a light theme The difference between the 3rd bar and it's immediate neighbours is almost negligible.

Example on a dark theme The colors after the 2nd bar tend toward black quickly

[EmmanuelDodoo]

My current thinking is to either increase or decrease the brightness of the color (using HSV here) based on which direction has more 'space'.

The change would then be a fraction of the original space. Should the change be a fraction of the remaining space instead, successive colors would become more and more indistinguishable, which would being as back to point one.

[EmmanuelDodoo]

These are the results of above approach.

Light theme

Dark theme

[EmmanuelDodoo]

Another approach would be to generate the seed, then turn down/up the brightness based on light/dark theme. Any generated colors would then turn up/down the brightness.

Would look like this

[EmmanuelDodoo]

For both of these, I think an idea of how many colors to produce will be necessary. That way brightness changes can be spread more evenly

Fixed: 2ddc82cad335669fc8490ca54c58e38c67f12b8c

[EmmanuelDodoo]

The second implementation will handle more generated colors better. I think I'll stick with that

[EmmanuelDodoo]

Second approach implemented and pushed to main

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