@inproceedings{705790936cd24ede974cefe350e43fb6,
title = "Chasing rainbows: A color-theoretic framework for improving and preserving bad colormaps",
abstract = "The scientific visualization community increasingly questions the use of rainbow colormaps. This is not unfounded as significant problems are readily seen in a luminance plot of the rainbow colormap. Many good, generally applicable colormaps are proposed as direct replacements for the rainbow. However, there are still many who choose rainbows and like them. Would a colormap with perfect luminance and the chromaticity of a rainbow find a wider audience? This was our motivation in studying the range of chromatic effects arising from luminance corrections. Consequently we developed a framework for adjusting colormaps to various degrees which produces favorable results on a wide range of colormaps. In this work we will detail this framework and demonstrate its effectiveness on several colormaps.",
author = "Robert Sisneros and Mohammad Raji and {Van Moer}, {Mark W.} and David Bock",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.; 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016 ; Conference date: 12-12-2016 Through 14-12-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-50835-1_36",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319508344",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "391--402",
editor = "George Bebis and Bahram Parvin and Sandra Skaff and Daisuke Iwai and Richard Boyle and Darko Koracin and Fatih Porikli and Carlos Scheidegger and Alireza Entezari and Jianyuan Min and Amela Sadagic and Tobias Isenberg",
booktitle = "Advances in Visual Computing - 12th International Symposium, ISVC 2016, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}