
Engineering Human-Like Color Palettes with OKLCH and K-Means
The author details the creation of a color palette extractor that uses OKLCH-based clustering and perceptual merging rules to generate human-feeling palettes from images.
Algorithms and techniques for manipulating, transforming, and analyzing digital images, including filtering, color conversion, and pixel-level operations.

The author details the creation of a color palette extractor that uses OKLCH-based clustering and perceptual merging rules to generate human-feeling palettes from images.
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