Generating color ranges in Python

Question

I want to generate a list of color specifications in the form of (r, g, b) tuples, that span the entire color spectrum with as many entries as I want. So for 5 entries I wou

Answer 1

Use the HSV/HSB/HSL color space (three names for more or less the same thing). Generate N tuples equally spread in hue space, then just convert them to RGB.

Sample code:

import colorsys
N = 5
HSV_tuples = [(x*1.0/N, 0.5, 0.5) for x in range(N)]
RGB_tuples = map(lambda x: colorsys.hsv_to_rgb(*x), HSV_tuples)