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They claim that the new scale gives a continuum from dark to light, but if you look at the example it goes dark at both ends with the brightest colors in the ex
by mark-r 8y ago
They claim that the new scale gives a continuum from dark to light, but if you look at the example it goes dark at both ends with the brightest colors in the exact middle. Why the discrepancy?
- zck 8y agoI don't think it does. The picture here: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/UPjournal_pone_0199239_g001.png https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/UPj... is CVD-Jet, not their new scale. The blue-and-yellow rightmost picture is described as "as a person with red-green color blindness sees the rainbow image [in the center]". This scale does put the brightest colors in the center. Their proposed scale, cividis, does not have a brightness in the middle of the scale. It's the second image in the article: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/journal_pone_0199239_g005.png https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/jou...
- nbutyllithium 8y agoCorrect, one of the links in the article shows a pretty clear comparison between rainbow scale, how that looks to someone with color deficiency (with the dark portions on the ends), and their proposed scale. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/a-simulation-color-table-for-engineers-with-color-vision-deficiency https://www.comsol.com/blogs/a-simulation-color-table-for-en... - midway down the page.
- mark-r 8y agoThanks. They sure made it confusing with their choice of examples then.