Category matplolib

How many Rainbows at EGU 2018?

April 16, 2018 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, matplolib, palettes, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

How are we doing in getting rid of the dreaded rainbow colour scheme in scientific visualisations? On a whim, I asked for people to count presentations or posters with Rainbow palettes at this year’s meeting of European Earth sciences mega-meeting, the EGU general assembly. Many thanks to those that stepped up. This was clearly a […]

A significant achievement

February 12, 2016 · by · in Colour, colour blindness, matplolib, palettes, Paper, python · Leave a comment

What an achievement! Yesterday, the lovely perceptually accurate open source colour palette, Viridis (we discussed it here) turned up in a major paper. The paper itself was on some gravity discovery or something, but we need to focus on what’s important here. Well done everyone.  

A welcome development for matplotlib

July 10, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, matplolib, palettes, Presentation, python, Video · 10 Comments

Here is a great video, describing viridis, the new default colourmap for matplotlib in the programming language Python. This has some great features – It’s perceptually uniform across its range, it’s pretty, and it works for the colourblind. Oh, and you’re free to use it. The last five minutes or so describe the process and thinking […]