Color

Some people spend their entire careers researching and learning about color. We only have time for two lectures. The first one, today, will cover the theory, and the next one will cover the consequences for design.

Slides

The lecture slides are available here.

Reading

Stone, representing color as three numbers.
Borland, Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful
An experiment to extract reliable perceptually-based colormaps from unreliable display conditions. Kindlmann et al., Face-based luminance matching, SciVis 2002.
The new matplotlib colormaps, and why they’re better. Youtube video
Gramazio et al., Colorgorical, InfoVis 2016.
Szafir, Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design, InfoVis 2017.

Etc

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