Re:The 12-bit rainbow palette
by twelvechairs on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:52AM
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> (1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.
Your inference doesnt follow from the first point. Hue is bad for magnitude because you dont see a different hue as 'more' or 'less' just 'different'. Hue is great for representing difference without defining one as a focus or preference over the other.
Your inference doesnt follow from the first point. Hue is bad for magnitude because you dont see a different hue as 'more' or 'less' just 'different'. Hue is great for representing difference without defining one as a focus or preference over the other.