How to dynamically compute a list of colors?

Question

In order to represent a List of Objects with different colors in a GWT-Widget, we need to get dynamically a List of colors with as much different colors as objects. Since th

Answer 1

Something like this would do I guess. No randomness, just calculates which color steps to take and splits all color range to that steps. If you limit the lower limit - you will remove too dark colors, and limiting the upper limit will remove too bright colors.

List getUniqueColors(int amount) {
    final int lowerLimit = 0x101010;
    final int upperLimit = 0xE0E0E0;
    final int colorStep = (upperLimit-lowerLimit)/amount;

    final List colors = new ArrayList(amount);
    for (int i=0;i