As promised the completed task of this strange harmonic looping project.

<cfscript>
/*
Create sequence of color hues.

Thanks to Jim Wright of the House of Fusion discussion list for his invaluable 
assistance in creating this algorithm.
*/

thelist = "00,44,88,CC,FF"; //Do this to seed the list with values, by default 
the first element is the last value in the list, and all of the others are the 
first value in the list, could also be set manually

y = -1; //The direction we are starting in the list
x = 2; //The position we are starting with
p = 3; //Number of columns
colorList = "";

p1 = listlast(thelist);
for (lp = 2; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1)
  variables["p" & lp] = listfirst(thelist);

l = listfind(thelist,variables["p" & x]);

//Create hex value for current Hue
hex = "";
for (lp = 1; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1)
  hex = hex & variables["p" & lp];

colorList = listAppend(colorList, hex);

do //iterate until start value is returned.
{
  while (((y LT 0 AND l IS 1) OR (y GT 0 AND l IS listlen(thelist))))
  {
  y = y * -1;

  if (x EQ 1)
    x = p;
  else
    x = x - 1;

  l = listfind(thelist,variables["p#x#"]);
  }

  l = l + y;
  variables["p" & x] = listgetat(thelist,l);

  //Create hex value for current Hue
  hex = "";
  for (lp = 1; lp LTE p; lp = lp + 1)
    hex = hex & variables["p" & lp];

  colorList = listAppend(colorList, hex);
} while (listFirst(colorList) NEQ hex);

colorList = listDeleteAt(colorList,listLen(colorList));// remove repeat of 
first value.
</cfscript>


--------------
Ian Skinner
Web Programmer
BloodSource
www.BloodSource.org
Sacramento, CA

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