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Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization by IggleSniggle on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:24AM (#20757462)
I read your comment before reading the blog, and I was thinking "yeah, Inferno is probably better," until I started getting to images where distinguishing slight variation was clearly important. That was my "ah-ha" moment for Turbo.

Computers are already really good at dealing with large-scale details. The human eye can notice edge-case scenarios in a large dataset pretty rapidly. I'm sold on Turbo because it lets your eyes change scale on the fly. You can be looking at the large scale and rapidly focus in on particulars within a smaller band, and back out again, as needed.

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