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N Colors

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CCurran Kelleher
Last edited Apr 18, 2022
Created on May 7, 2021

Sixteen vertical rectangles fill the viewport, each displaying a distinct color generated in HCL color space. Hue cycles evenly around the color wheel while chroma stays fixed at 50, and luminance varies randomly following a normal distribution centered at 30 with a standard deviation of 10. The example uses d3.scaleBand for layout, d3.scaleOrdinal for color assignment, and d3.hcl to construct colors with random luminance from d3.randomNormal and d3.randomLcg.

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An approach for generating an arbitrary number (N) of colors.

In HCL (Hue-Chroma-Luminance) color space:

  • Hue varies around the color wheel.
  • Chroma (saturation) is fixed.
  • Luminance is random according to a normal distribution.

This is the color scheme approach used in D3 Git History Streamgraph.

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