leaf-sample

A Rust crate to iterate indefinitely over well spread points, similar to some leaf arrangement pattern in nature.

Applications

Ideal for generating a variable amount of distinct colors.

	Grid sample	Poisson Disk	Leaf sample
Iterate indefinitely	❌	❌	✅
Random Looking	❌	✅	❌
Fast	✅	❌	✅

Usage

use leaf_spread::leaf_sample;
use palette::Hsv;

fn main() {
  for [hue, value] in leaf_sample!(0..360, 0.6..1.0).take(10) {
    let color = Hsv::new(hue, 0.8, value);
    // use the color however
  }
}

How ?

Golden ratio shenaningans from http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-quasirandom-sequences/