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New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

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Re: New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

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vitalique wrote: post #37

I am not colorblind, but work with data visualization in Matlab a lot. This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme. There's no way I'm going back to Jet. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

This talk was awesome. Best explanation i've ever heard for why color spaces have the odd shape they do. The 3d models of perceivable color spaces for different colorblindnesses was also really insightful.

Re: New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

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tapia wrote: post #38
vitalique wrote: post #37

I am not colorblind, but work with data visualization in Matlab a lot. This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme. There's no way I'm going back to Jet. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

Shouldn't it have convinced you to switch to Viridis instead?

Yes, Viridis is quantifiably better than Parula, as the talk shows, but Parula comes with the standard Matlab, and the jump from Jet to Parula was of such a tremendous magnitude that I kind of fell in love with the Parula color scheme right away. Jump from Parula to Viridis would be less noticeable, I guess. The talk opened my eyes to the fact that there are much better ways to use color for information presentation. (Sorry for the late reply)
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