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An algorithm for the selection of high‐contrast color sets
Author(s) -
Campadelli Paola,
Posenato Roberto,
Schettini Raimondo
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6378(199904)24:2<132::aid-col8>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - color coding , coding (social sciences) , contrast (vision) , computer science , algorithm , selection (genetic algorithm) , similarity (geometry) , code (set theory) , function (biology) , artificial intelligence , mathematics , image (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , statistics , evolutionary biology , biology , programming language
Nominal color coding is the aesthetic and functional use of color to convey qualitative information in graphical environments. The specification of high‐contrast color sets is a fundamental step in this process. We formulate the color‐coding problem here as a combinatorial optimization problem on graphs and present an algorithm that performs well and does not require that the function used to code the similarity between colors be a distance function. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Col Res Appl, 24, 132–138, 1999