Convert all of the colors to the CIE Lab color space and compute the distance in that space deltaE = sqrt(deltaL^2 + deltaA^2 + deltaB^2) Colors with the lowest deltaE are the most perceptually similar to each other.
Here’s my implementation: import java.awt.color.ColorSpace; public class CIELab extends ColorSpace { public static CIELab getInstance() { return Holder.INSTANCE; } @Override public float[] fromCIEXYZ(float[] colorvalue) { double l = f(colorvalue[1]); double L = 116.0 * l – 16.0; double a = 500.0 * (f(colorvalue[0]) – l); double b = 200.0 * (l – f(colorvalue[2])); return new … Read more
My first thought on this is “how to generate N vectors in a space that maximize distance from each other.” You can see that the RGB (or any other scale you use that forms a basis in color space) are just vectors. Take a look at Random Point Picking. Once you have a set of … Read more
The correct answer is NO, because there is no correct working model of how “color mixing in the real world” really works. It is FAR too complex and conditional and not really at all like the simple Red-Blue-Yellow stuff that we learned in school (it in fact requires all of Chemistry and a lot of … Read more