[Cdash] coverage color palette

[Zach Mullen]

Here is a good tool for what I described:

http://hslpicker.com/#00F2FF

Once we have a good 3 color scheme, we can use that to easily pick the 3
darker or lighter versions.


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com>wrote:

> Seems like we could derive the lighter (or darker) shades of the selected
> colors by offsetting the lightness value in the HSL space.  We need 6
> colors (a lighter and darker for each of the 3).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:32 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> I do like the darker shades of color you get at the extremes when you try
>> out a 5-color scheme...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Yngve Levinsen <yngve.levinsen at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I just realised, you need perhaps 5 colours for the alternating reds and
>>> greens? In any case I think the doodle will give you a nice hint of which
>>> colours to chose until you have implemented the option where the user can
>>> set his own colour scheme.. Let me know if I should change the doodle in
>>> any way.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Yngve
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 December 2012 17:23, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All of CDash.
>>>>
>>>> There is no use keeping the existing main color scheme when 8% of the
>>>> male population is red-green color blind to some degree.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Would this be just for coverage results, or across all of CDash?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Could anybody reading this thread, please spend 3 minutes taking a
>>>>>> quick look at each of the 3 proposed color schemes, and voting at
>>>>>> doodle.com using the survey link below?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Yngve Levinsen <
>>>>>> yngve.levinsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://doodle.com/dfbspwuifpfd8pyq
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd appreciate as much input as possible on this one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Zach Mullen
>>>>> R & D Engineer
>>>>> Kitware Inc.
>>>>> 919-869-8858
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Zach Mullen
> R & D Engineer
> Kitware Inc.
> 919-869-8858
>



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Zach Mullen
R & D Engineer
Kitware Inc.
919-869-8858
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