Re: [PATCH] log: support 256 colors with --graph=256colors

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 25, 2016, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ANbXZWOV+zN-S8c8V0aTWZ4DHZ=GVmuuAqmY=oFh8T-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> If I were doing this, I'd just prepare a table with 32 color slots
> or so [*1*], start at a random spot (say 017:00005f) of
>
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xterm_256color_chart.svg,
>
> and pick spots by jumping southeast like a chess knight
> (i.e. 017->030->043->086->...) until the table is filled, wrapping
> around at the edge of that color chart as necessary.

If you want to play with that, [1] may help, which sorts colors in hsv space, and you can select a few colors to see how they look, either manually or by calculation. Yeah we probably get maybe 32 (or 48 if you stretch it a bit) distinct colors. Not sure if it's any better with true color terminals, probably not.

[1] https://gist.github.com/pclouds/616b67f0b5a9b20d74373286574cd0ac

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Duy