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Visualization tips for geoscientists – series outline

January 5, 2013by Matteo 1 Comment

Visualization tips for geoscientists: Surfer Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part II Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part III

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Application, Cartography and mapping, Geophysics, Geoscience, Graphics, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code, Tutorial, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Comparing color palettes

December 21, 2012by Matteo 4 Comments

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 […]

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Color, Graphics, ImageJ, Programming and code, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part III

October 25, 2012by Matteo 4 Comments

 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 […]

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Application, Cartography and mapping, Geophysics, Geoscience, Graphics, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code, Tutorial, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Better Palettes

September 27, 2012by Matteo 1 Comment

Reblogged from Better Figures: Earlier this week, we were treated to some lovely unadulterated* sciency data, in the shape of a map of sea level rise in the last 18 […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geoscience, Graphics, VIsualization
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Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization

May 14, 2012by Matteo 7 Comments

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 […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geoscience, VIsualization
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colour maps

April 23, 2012by Matteo 4 Comments

Reblogged from Colour chat: Last year a student, Kaori, from Japan spent some time with me at Leeds and we spoke a lot about how to use colour effectively in […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geoscience, Graphics, ImageJ, Programming and code, VIsualization
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Visualization tips for geoscientists: Matlab, part II

April 5, 2012by Matteo 4 Comments

Introduction In my previous post on this topic I left two loose ends: one in the main text about shading in 3D, and one in the comment section to follow-up […]

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Application, Cartography and mapping, Geophysics, Geoscience, Graphics, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code, Tutorial, Tutorial, VIsualization
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A good divergent color palette for Matlab

March 15, 2012by Matteo 15 Comments

INTRODUCTION Before starting my series on perceptual color palettes I thought it was worth mentioning an excellent function I found some time ago on the Matlab File Exchange. The function is […]

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Color, Graphics, Matlab, Programming and code, VIsualization
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Visualization tips for geoscientists: Surfer

January 25, 2012by Matteo 8 Comments

I have been thinking for a while about writing on visualization of geophysical data. I finally got to it, and I am now pleased  to show you a technique I use often.  […]

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Application, Geophysics, Geoscience, Graphics, Image Processing, Programming and code, Tutorial, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Time to spice up your visualization skills?

November 17, 2011by Matteo 6 Comments

Introduction I love a visualization well done, whether by me or someone else. In fact, I love visualization period. I find there’s always something to learn by looking at an image […]

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