A war has been waged in recent years against the use of rainbow colormaps in graphical representations of scientific data (Hawkins, 2015 and here and here). Several papers have been published arguing against the use of these colormaps, most recently in Nature Communications (Crameri et al., 2020), a paper I’ll be discussing more thoroughly…
Thoughts on Rainbow Colormaps from a Synaesthetic Point of View
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