The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 1

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First submitted by Matteo Niccoli on 14 May 2012

First post of my blog series on deconstructing rainbow and spectrum color palettes.

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14 May 2012	Matteo Niccoli	This is the first post in a series on the rainbow and similar color palettes. My goal is to demonstrate it is not a good idea to use these palettes to display scientific data, and then answer these two questions: (1) is there anything we can do to “fix” the rainbow, and (2) if not, can we design a new one from scratch.

14 May 2012

Matteo Niccoli

This is the first post in a series on the rainbow and similar color palettes. My goal is to demonstrate it is not a good idea to use these palettes to display scientific data, and then answer these two questions: (1) is there anything we can do to “fix” the rainbow, and (2) if not, can we design a new one from scratch.

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colour	Matteo Niccoli	14 May 2012 at 4:39pm
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visualization	Matteo Niccoli	14 May 2012 at 4:39pm