• DocumentCode
    1198864
  • Title

    Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful

  • Author

    Borland, David ; Taylor, Russell M., II

  • Author_Institution
    North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    In this article, we reiterate the characteristics that make the rainbow color map a poor choice, provide examples that clearly illustrate these deficiencies even on simple data sets, and recommend better color maps for several categories of display. The goal is to make the rainbow color map as rare in visualization as the goto statement is in programming - which complicates the task of analyzing and verifying program correctness
  • Keywords
    colour graphics; data visualisation; data visualization; rainbow color map; Color; Conference proceedings; Data visualization; Encoding; Gray-scale; Hazards; Isosurfaces; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tensile stress; Transfer functions; color map; rainbow color map; visualization toolkits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCG.2007.323435
  • Filename
    4118486
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1198864