add option to map 24 hours to full color range

[der-On]

It would be nice to have the full color range map to 24h of a day. This way color transitions would be more interesting and vivid.

[urtxintxa]

What do you mean exactly? The time is in 24h format. @der-On

[der-On]

I would like to have #00000 to map to 00:00:00 and #ffffff to 23:59:59 and #cccccc to 12:00:00 or something like that. So basically we would get the full color spectrum throughout the day.

[urtxintxa]

@der-On
I think this could be better:
00:00:00 -> #000000
00:00:30 -> #000081
00:00:59 -> #0000ff

12:00:00 -> #850000
12:10:15 -> #852b40

Hour is from 0 to 23, so convert that value to 0-255.
Same with minutes and seconds, from 0-59 to 0-255.

Then convert that values to hex, and get the colors. With this we could have plenty of colors.
What do you think?

[der-On]

@jajasuperman That sounds awesome! It should also bring smooth transitions even when minutes and hours change.

[cao-]

There's another interesting way of transitioning between colours: we can do a random walk throughout the whole colour spectrum.

[urtxintxa]

@cao- Could you put an example?

[cao-]

We can view our RGB colour space as a three dimensional cubic set of points. In fact, every point is a triplet of the form (r,g,b), where r,g and b are any number between 0 and 255.
Now simply imagine being inside this cube in a particular position. Every second you can move to one of your adjacent positions in a random way, with uniform probability distribution.

Example.
Suppose you start at the point (42,63,23), which corresponds to the hex colour #2a3f17. You have 26 adjacent points, namely (41,62,23), (41,63,23), (41,64,24), (42,63,22),... So you choose one of them at random, assigning to each of them probability 1/26. This way after a second you are on a new triplet, which means you are on a new colour.
Note: corners and side points have fewer than 26 adjacent points.

This method produces an always uniform but non-predictable transition between colours.

[urtxintxa]

@der-On @cao-
Nice idea. I will try to implement this two ideas.
Thanks guys ;)

[cao-]

@jajasuperman Thank you for trying to implement our ideas!