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Sam Clay's excellent NewsBlur did this in Python in order to pick good colors to represent a blog source - he gave a short talk about it in an NYC LinkedList se
by beagle3 11y ago
Sam Clay's excellent NewsBlur did this in Python in order to pick good colors to represent a blog source - he gave a short talk about it in an NYC LinkedList session (which later morphed into Hacker School which then became The Recurse Center).
- on_and_off 11y agoThe idea is not really new, it is just becoming more popular thanks to Android's implementation as a first party lib. There are several well known algorithms : Octree, MCQ & Neuquant and all libs tend to implement a variation of one of these.