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Figure Caption Color Indicators
Earlier this year, I became aware of a feature in GitHub-flavored Markdown that displays a colored square inline when HTML color codes are surrounded by backticks, e.g., #1f77b4. Although I only recently became aware of this feature, it dates back … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Research Tagged annotations, color, color blindness, color vision deficiency, figure captions, scientific literature Leave a comment
Discernibility of (Rainbow) Colormaps
Earlier this month, the Turbo rainbow colormap was released and publicized on the Google AI Blog. This colormap attempts to mitigate the banding issues in the existing Jet rainbow colormap, while retaining the advantages of its high contrast; note that … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Miscellaneous Tagged color, color blindness, color vision deficiency, colormap, Jet, Turbo Leave a comment
Pannellum 2.5
Pannellum 2.5 has now been released. As with Pannellum 2.4, this was a rather incremental release. The most noteworthy change is that equirectangular panoramas will now be automatically split into two textures if too big for a given device, which … Continue reading
Preliminary Color Cycle Order Ranking Results
Last month, I presented a preliminary analysis of ranking color sets using responses collected in the Color Cycle Survey. Now, I extend this analysis to look at color ordering within a given color set. For this analysis, the same artificial … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Programming, Research Tagged color, color blindness, color cycle, color set, color vision deficiency, machine learning, neural network Leave a comment
Preliminary Color Cycle Set Ranking Results
Since I launched my color cycle survey in December, it has collected ~9.7k responses across ~800 user sessions. Although the responses are not as numerous as I’d like, there’s currently enough data for preliminary analysis. The data are split between … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Programming, Research Tagged color, color blindness, color cycle, color set, color vision deficiency, machine learning, neural network Leave a comment