An introduction to color palettes for seismic amplitude – teaser
Introduction In the next few posts I will take a look at some of the color palettes used for seismic amplitude display, and discuss ways we can design more perceptual […]
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Perceptual rainbow palette – the goodies
Perceptual rainbow palette - Matlab function and ASCII files In my last post I introduced cubeYF, my custom-made perceptual lightness rainbow palette. As promised there, I am sharing the palette with today’s post. […]
Perceptual rainbow palette – the method
With this post I would like to introduce my new, perceptually balanced rainbow color palette. I used the palette for the first time in How to assess a colourmap, an essay […]
Visualization tips for geoscientists – series outline
Visualization tips for geoscientists: Surfer Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part II Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part III
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 […]
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 […]
The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 2: a rainbow puzzle
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 […]
