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Horses for courses, I think. Let's say you are plotting the pressure distribution on two different racing car wings (spoilers), side by side. If you're trying t
by semi-extrinsic 7y ago
Horses for courses, I think. Let's say you are plotting the pressure distribution on two different racing car wings (spoilers), side by side. If you're trying to say "this wing gives 2.4% more downforce than that one", you would use Viridis or Inferno. But if you are trying to say "look at how the F1 car wing is different to the Indy car wing", then something like Turbo is better suited.
Basically, I posit that sacrificing perceptual linearity for increased hue range can be worth it for conveying qualitative information.
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- spectramax 7y agoI disagree. That’s still not a good way to show difference. Why not use a discrete color scheme for displaying differences? There is no reason to use a continuous color map, distort it and show qualitative differences - a continuous colormap is used for continuous variables.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoThe underlying data is continuous, and you want to give a qualitative impression. Why is that a bad idea?