I wrote the two methods below to automatically select N distinct colors. It works by defining a piecewise linear function on the RGB cube. The benefit of this is you can also get a progressive scale if that's what you want, but when N gets large the colors can start to look similar. I can also imagine evenly subdividing the RGB cube into a lattice and then drawing points. Does anyone know any other methods? I'm ruling out defining a list and then just cycling through it. I should also say I don't generally care if they clash or don't look nice, they just have to be visually distinct.

public static List<Color> pick(int num) {
    List<Color> colors = new ArrayList<Color>();
    if (num < 2)
        return colors;
    float dx = 1.0f / (float) (num - 1);
    for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
        colors.add(get(i * dx));
    }
    return colors;
}

public static Color get(float x) {
    float r = 0.0f;
    float g = 0.0f;
    float b = 1.0f;
    if (x >= 0.0f && x < 0.2f) {
        x = x / 0.2f;
        r = 0.0f;
        g = x;
        b = 1.0f;
    } else if (x >= 0.2f && x < 0.4f) {
        x = (x - 0.2f) / 0.2f;
        r = 0.0f;
        g = 1.0f;
        b = 1.0f - x;
    } else if (x >= 0.4f && x < 0.6f) {
        x = (x - 0.4f) / 0.2f;
        r = x;
        g = 1.0f;
        b = 0.0f;
    } else if (x >= 0.6f && x < 0.8f) {
        x = (x - 0.6f) / 0.2f;
        r = 1.0f;
        g = 1.0f - x;
        b = 0.0f;
    } else if (x >= 0.8f && x <= 1.0f) {
        x = (x - 0.8f) / 0.2f;
        r = 1.0f;
        g = 0.0f;
        b = x;
    }
    return new Color(r, g, b);
}

当前回答

您可以使用HSL颜色模型来创建颜色。

如果你想要的只是不同的色调(可能),以及亮度或饱和度的轻微变化,你可以像这样分配色调:

// assumes hue [0, 360), saturation [0, 100), lightness [0, 100)

for(i = 0; i < 360; i += 360 / num_colors) {
    HSLColor c;
    c.hue = i;
    c.saturation = 90 + randf() * 10;
    c.lightness = 50 + randf() * 10;

    addColor(c);
}

其他回答

我们只需要一个RGB三联体对的范围,这些三联体之间的距离最大。

我们可以定义一个简单的线性渐变,然后调整渐变的大小以获得所需的颜色数量。

在python中:

from skimage.transform import resize
import numpy as np
def distinguishable_colors(n, shuffle = True, 
                           sinusoidal = False,
                           oscillate_tone = False): 
    ramp = ([1, 0, 0],[1,1,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1], [1,0,1]) if n>3 else ([1,0,0], [0,1,0],[0,0,1])
    
    coltrio = np.vstack(ramp)
    
    colmap = np.round(resize(coltrio, [n,3], preserve_range=True, 
                             order = 1 if n>3 else 3
                             , mode = 'wrap'),3)
    
    if sinusoidal: colmap = np.sin(colmap*np.pi/2)
    
    colmap = [colmap[x,] for x  in range(colmap.shape[0])]
    
    if oscillate_tone:
        oscillate = [0,1]*round(len(colmap)/2+.5)
        oscillate = [np.array([osc,osc,osc]) for osc in oscillate]
        colmap = [.8*colmap[x] + .2*oscillate[x] for x in range(len(colmap))]
    
    #Whether to shuffle the output colors
    if shuffle:
        random.seed(1)
        random.shuffle(colmap)
        
    return colmap

为了子孙后代,我在这里添加了Python中公认的答案。

import numpy as np
import colorsys

def _get_colors(num_colors):
    colors=[]
    for i in np.arange(0., 360., 360. / num_colors):
        hue = i/360.
        lightness = (50 + np.random.rand() * 10)/100.
        saturation = (90 + np.random.rand() * 10)/100.
        colors.append(colorsys.hls_to_rgb(hue, lightness, saturation))
    return colors

Janus的回答,但更容易读懂。我还稍微调整了配色方案,并在你可以自己修改的地方做了标记

我已经把这个片段直接粘贴到一个jupyter笔记本。

import colorsys
import itertools
from fractions import Fraction
from IPython.display import HTML as html_print

def infinite_hues():
    yield Fraction(0)
    for k in itertools.count():
        i = 2**k # zenos_dichotomy
        for j in range(1,i,2):
            yield Fraction(j,i)

def hue_to_hsvs(h: Fraction):
    # tweak values to adjust scheme
    for s in [Fraction(6,10)]:
        for v in [Fraction(6,10), Fraction(9,10)]: 
            yield (h, s, v) 

def rgb_to_css(rgb) -> str:
    uint8tuple = map(lambda y: int(y*255), rgb)
    return "rgb({},{},{})".format(*uint8tuple)

def css_to_html(css):
    return f"<text style=background-color:{css}>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</text>"

def show_colors(n=33):
    hues = infinite_hues()
    hsvs = itertools.chain.from_iterable(hue_to_hsvs(hue) for hue in hues)
    rgbs = (colorsys.hsv_to_rgb(*hsv) for hsv in hsvs)
    csss = (rgb_to_css(rgb) for rgb in rgbs)
    htmls = (css_to_html(css) for css in csss)

    myhtmls = itertools.islice(htmls, n)
    display(html_print("".join(myhtmls)))

show_colors()

这个OpenCV函数使用HSV颜色模型在0<=H<=360º周围生成n个均匀分布的颜色,最大S=1.0, V=1.0。函数在bgr_mat中输出BGR颜色:

void distributed_colors (int n, cv::Mat_<cv::Vec3f> & bgr_mat) {
  cv::Mat_<cv::Vec3f> hsv_mat(n,CV_32F,cv::Vec3f(0.0,1.0,1.0));
  double step = 360.0/n;
  double h= 0.0;
  cv::Vec3f value;
  for (int i=0;i<n;i++,h+=step) {
    value = hsv_mat.at<cv::Vec3f>(i);
    hsv_mat.at<cv::Vec3f>(i)[0] = h;
  }
  cv::cvtColor(hsv_mat, bgr_mat, CV_HSV2BGR);
  bgr_mat *= 255;
}

对于Python用户来说,seaborn非常简洁:

>>> import seaborn as sns
>>> sns.color_palette(n_colors=4)

它返回RGB元组列表:

[(0.12156862745098039, 0.4666666666666667, 0.7058823529411765),
(1.0, 0.4980392156862745, 0.054901960784313725),
(0.17254901960784313, 0.6274509803921569, 0.17254901960784313),
(0.8392156862745098, 0.15294117647058825, 0.1568627450980392)]