Google Earth and a 5 minutes book review: Geology Illustrated
A few years ago I bought on e-bay Geology Illustrated – by John S. Shelton, for just 10 US dollars. Every time I look at, and inside the book I can’t […]
Why I replaced my Creative Commons license with Konomark
Why I share I think openness in geoscience is very important, and I feel we all have a duty to be open with our work, data, ideas when possible and practical. I […]
MyCarta – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 19,000 […]
Comparing color palettes
Introduction In my last post I introduced a CIE Lab linear L* rainbow palette from a paper by Kindlmann et al. [1]. I used this palette with a map of South America created with data from […]
MyCarta blog facelift: wordpress.com oxygen theme customised with CSS
I recently updated the blog look by switching to the Oxygen WP theme. This is a very good looking theme and I am thrilled by the results. I made a […]
MyCarta
Hi everyone and welcome. As I mention in the blog header and in my about page, this is Matteo Niccoli’s blog of Topics in Geophysics, Planetary Exploration, Image Processing, Digital […]
The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 5 – CIE Lab linear L* rainbow
Some great examples After my previous post in this series there was a great discussion on perceptual color palettes with some members of the Worldwide Geophysicists group on LinkedIn. Ian MacLeod shared some really […]
Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part III
Introduction Last weekend I had a few hours to play with but needed a short break from writing about color palettes, so I decided to go back and finish up […]
The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 4 – CIE Lab heated body
In my last post I discussed the two main issues with the rainbow color palette from the point of view of human color vision, and concluded one of these […]
The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 3
Inroduction Following the first post in this series, Steve commented: Matteo, so would I be correct in assuming that the false structures that we see in the rainbow palette are caused […]
