A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
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Jet can exaggerate changes where data are smooth. The designers discuss perceptual uniformity, luminance, grayscale reproduction and color-vision differences.
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they take twice as long and they make more diagnostic errorsa perceptually uniform color map is one where this line is flatto be grayscale friendly we need to go from sort of dark to lightthe crucial thing for uniformity is getting those nearby color estimatesan interface between your data and your braincolorb blind friendly we have to use blue yellow