Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful

By D. Borland, Russell M. Taylor. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2007

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Citations in the corpus

• Noodles: A Tool for Visualization of Numerical Weather Model Ensemble Uncertainty (2010, background): “It has been the authors’ experience that many geovisualization packages use the rainbow colormap by default in spite of its known perceptual deficiencies [6].”