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Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization by robotresearcher on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:25AM (#20757477)
You are right and I was wrong. The ‘rainbow’ map at the matplotlib link happens to be plotted next to ‘jet’ and the lack of perceptual banding in comparison is clear. Looks like the Google author came up with a similar idea.

Whoever gave the name ‘rainbow’ to their rainbow colormap?! It’s like naming a dog ‘dog’.

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Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization by JBorrow on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:55AM (#20757802)
Yeah, it's not the best name. There is also the 'Spectral' colour map that is plotted in a different section, which imo is much better suited as being a diverging colour map as yellow looks more 'neutral' than bright green.
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