[Monotone-devel] Re: New release of monotone-viz

[Bruce Stephens]

Olivier Andrieu <address@hidden> writes:

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> Yeah, I tried picking colors in HLS space (Hue, Lightness,
> Saturation) based on a hash. It gives adequate colors but with a
> dozen keys you're quite likely to get two colors with a similar hue,
> so I'd like to try something less "random".

You could probably not generate colours for infrequently used keys and
small branches.  (Well, probably any keys which have secret keys in
the database deserve colours.)  It would also be good to have stable
colours if possible, so I think the colours need to be saved (per
database, I guess).