Reblogged from Neuroanthropology: Colour is a perceptual interaction arising from our ability to discriminate between different wavelengths of light from within a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Light itself has no colour. […]
The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 1 The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 2: a rainbow puzzle The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part […]
ROYGBIV or YOGRVIB? If you are interested in the topic of color palettes for scientific data, and the rainbow in particular, I would say you ought to read this 2007 […]
Reblogged from Colour chat: In my job I probably use the phrase “colour space” every day and have done for the last 20 years. So imagine my surprise when I […]
Matt Hall and Evan Bianco of Agile Geoscience have put together this great new book. I have been fortunate to have my article on colourmaps included as one of the […]
I find the Color Use Guidelines by Cynthia Brewer (of Color Brewer fame) very well done and extremely useful. Below is a screen captures of the main page. To see […]
Introduction This is the first post in a series on the rainbow and similar color palettes. My goal is to demonstrate it is not a good idea to use these […]
