a question of adobe color cc

[boulot-dodo sans metro]

Hello, everyone !

I have a question about adobe color cc. On the site of adobe color cc, there is a function to extract the color theme. I'm quite curious about the color mood 'colorful' is extracted by which kind of rules. Is the algorithm extract the five colors which occupied most of the dimension ? waiting for experts to respond this question.

[Imaginerie]

Only someone who participateted in the development of this particular website will be able to answer and that's not likely to happen!
In my experience (but I may be wrong)
It's more to do with the choice of sufficient gap between different colours, counterbalanced by the area taken (A big area of mostly uniform colour will register as one, a small area with sufficiently different colours will register as multiple, in case of a draw, the big area will show more colours). I am not privy to the technical details but that's what I observed.

[boulot-dodo sans metro]

Thanks for the response.😊

[syed_mehadi · Accepted solution]

yes, that low level of detail will be difficult to share. but if i have to generalize it, i would say more colors are selected by colorful.