> They put a bunch of apparently important data between values of like 0.00 and 0.05, but don’t have any substantial amount of important data between 0.45 and 0

> They put a bunch of apparently important data between values of like 0.00 and 0.05, but don’t have any substantial amount of important data between 0.45 and 0.55. I don't think they chose the image to best present their colormap. It seems more likely that they designed their colormap to work well for a few images, including this image. Call it a very weak form of Hanlon's Razor