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2021-01-01statistics: add color-related functionsGravatar Dirk Hohndel
Add a source file and a header file, which implement the color scheme used by the statistics module. Besides a few color constants, the centerpiece is a function that returns the color representing a bin and an appropriate label color. It picks a roughly equi-distant set of colors out of an already balanced set of 50 candidate colors. And it also picks white as text color when adding a label to a segment with a dark color. The color list was created using a tool by Gregor Aisch that is available on GitHub as https://github.com/gka/palettes to create multi-hued, multi-stop color scales that are safe for color blind people. This commit contains code from three authors. Dirk (main author): adaptive color scheme. Willem: Colors of single-bin charts and lines. Berthold: Infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> Signed-off-by: willemferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za> Signed-off-by: Berthold Stoeger <bstoeger@mail.tuwien.ac.at>