How to interpolate a color sequence?

Question

I need to interpolate or change gradually a sequence of colors, so it goes from colorA to colorB to colorC to colorD and them back to colorA, this need to be based on time e

Answer 1

What you've got already looks very good, but I'd simplify the math a little bit:

int millisNow = ofGetElapsedTimeMillis();
int millisSinceLastCheck = millisNow % timerPeriod;
int colorsIndex = (millisNow / timerPerod) % (colors.size() - 1);


float p = (float)(millisSinceLastCheck) / (float)(timePeriod);
colorT.r = colors[colorsIndex+1].r * p + ( colors[colorsIndex].r * ( 1.0 - p ) );
colorT.g = colors[colorsIndex+1].g * p + ( colors[colorsIndex].g * ( 1.0 - p ) );
colorT.b = colors[colorsIndex+1].b * p + ( colors[colorsIndex].b * ( 1.0 - p ) );
colorT.normalize();