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Tag Archives: Matlab

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Color palettes for seismic structure maps and attributes

March 26, 2013by Matteo 3 Comments

I created three color palettes for structure maps (seismic horizons, elevation maps, etcetera) and seismic attributes. To read about the palettes please check these previous blog posts: The rainbow is dead…long […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geophysics, Graphics, Research, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Perceptual rainbow palette – the goodies

March 6, 2013by Matteo 6 Comments

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. […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geoscience, Graphics, Matlab, Programming and code, VIsualization
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Perceptual rainbow palette – the method

February 21, 2013by Matteo 3 Comments

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 […]

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Application, Cartography and mapping, Color, Geophysics, Geoscience, Graphics, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code, Research, Tutorial, VIsualization
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Edge detection as image fidelity test

February 2, 2013by Matteo Leave a comment

This post is a quick follow-up to Dithering, a very interesting post by Cris Luengo, developer of DIPimage, a free Matlab image analysis toolbox. Dithering is a graphic method that arranges black and […]

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Application, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code
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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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The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 5 – CIE Lab linear L* rainbow

December 6, 2012by Matteo 10 Comments

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 […]

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Cartography and mapping, Color, Geoscience, Graphics, ImageJ, Matlab, Programming and code, Research, 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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The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 1

May 12, 2012by Matteo 16 Comments

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 […]

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Application, Color, Image Processing, Matlab, Programming and code, Research, Tutorial, 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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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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