Rainbows Revisited: Modeling Effective Colormap Design for Graphical Inference
Summary
Colormaps that pass through more nameable colors, rainbows included, made people more accurate at inference.
The experiments found no sign that color categories created false features — a useful counterweight to the anti-rainbow canon.
- Resource: Rainbows Revisited: Modeling Effective Colormap Design for Graphical Inference
- By: Khairi Reda & Danielle Albers Szafir
- Published: 2020
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-scales, perception, data-viz, scientist, research