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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Hannah Weller conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft, wrote, tested, and published R package..

Mark Westneat conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

GitHub (development version of code and example images):

https://github.com/hiweller/colordistance

Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) (stable release code only):

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=colordistance

Funding

This research was supported by NSF grants IOS 1425049 and DEB 1541547 to M. Westneat. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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