Since the 111×99, I have manually changed the color of at least a couple lines for every image. This is done within my own program while the images are still in vector format.
One of the limitations of the line editor I wrote is that the colors I can select are restricted to the theme used to generate the image. This is no longer an issue – I have added the option to pick a theme for each line. This lets me change the color of a line to any color of any theme.
With that in mind I decided to make a new theme designed specifically for editing.
From 24 to 132 Colors
The editing theme is based on the 24 color theme designed for contrast. Before I decided to make a theme specifically for editing, the 24 color theme had been replaced by a 30 color version with 5 shades for each color instead of 4. Here are the two side by side:
The 30 color theme was my starting point for the eventual line editor palette.
First, I increased the number of shades to 11 for each color by adding 1 lighter shade, 1 darker shade, and 4 shades in between the original 5 shades. Here’s the result:
Note: I manually changed the first red to an orange because I thought it would be more useful for editing.
This was where I stopped at first – I used this palette to edit one image (not included in the gallery) for the 120×110 before I felt like it wasn’t sufficient. I didn’t want only more shades of the same colors, I wanted more colors.
So, I added 6 more colors. The 6 colors I was using cover all of the primary and secondary colors of the RGB color wheel – the additional 6 colors cover all of the tertiary colors. Besides learning that they are called tertiary colors when writing this, I also found out that they have names:
- orange
- rose
- violet
- azure
- spring green
- chartreuse
The new 6 colors also have 11 shades each, doubling my palette from 66 to 132 colors.
Here are all 132 colors:
Note that all of the palettes shown above are with contrast adjustments. My program adds contrast to each image in post-processing, that effectively makes the darks darker and the lights lighter.
I also made a 60 color palette that has 5 shades of all 12 colors for image generation – though not necessarily to replace the 30 color palette:
I think the 30 color palette produces better images on average, though there is more variety with the 60 color palette.