The challenging task of sorting colours

This is pretty cool.

4 years ago, I spent few days playing with colors to come up with an algo which allows us to automatically generate a set of colors for objects in our 3D scene. Some of the algos considered were to sort the colors in some way which includes the darker and lighter colors, and still allows us to choose n different colors from the whole range.

The result was good but not as great as we expected. The conclusion was that our algorithms are still not capable of replacing human chosen color themes.

Maybe if we had more time, or an intern with such an inclination for color selection, we might have gotten farther.