Data graphics shape the way science is communicated, and the color schemes we employ
can either faithfully represent or tacitly obscure the data a figure is intended to convey (Tufte …

Rainbow color scheme is popularly used across the board in many scientific disciplines for
visualizing data, yet heavily debated in visualization literature. In this paper, we first report …

Color is frequently used to encode values in visualizations. For color encodings to be
effective, the map** between colors and values must preserve important differences in the …

Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data gazes on scenes in which
information makes worlds and gives form. Such capacities, I will argue, endure beyond …

Visualizations often encode numeric data using sequential and diverging color ramps.
Effective ramps use colors that are sufficiently discriminable, align well with the data, and are …

We know the rainbow color map is terrible, and it is emphatically reviled by the visualization
community, yet its use continues to persist. Why do we continue to use a this perceptual …

Pseudocoloring is one of the most common techniques used in scientific visualization. To
apply pseudocoloring to a scalar field, the field value at each point is represented using one …

Colormap design is challenging because the encoding must match the requirements of data
and analysis tasks as well as the perception of the target user. A number of well-known tools …

We introduce Artifact-Based Rendering (ABR), a framework of tools, algorithms, and
processes that makes it possible to produce real, data-driven 3D scientific visualizations with …

Continuous colormaps are integral parts of many visualization techniques, such as heat-
maps, surface plots, and flow visualization. Despite that the critiques of rainbow colormaps …