Section outline

    • Color File PDF

      Color: the importance of color. Color perception: the anatomy and physiology of the human eye, the trichromatic theory and the color opponent processing theory. Color specification with RGB, HSL, CIE Lab and HCL color spaces. Demonstrations using various color pickers. Intuitivity and perceptual uniformity of each space. Use of color. The desired properties and examples of sequential color maps. Issues with the rainbow color map, alternative sequential color maps. The desired properties and examples of diverging, cyclic and categorical color maps. Bivariate color maps. Using established color maps (colorbrewer) and constructing new ones. The semantics of color. Considerations for colorblind people. The importance of size. Relative perception, importance of contrast, background and surrounding colors. Advice on choosing colors.


    • Second assignment (results) File PDF

      The results of the second assignment

    • Third assignment File PDF

      Third assignment: list issues with the given visualization and improve it


    • Third assignment (data) File CSV

      Data for the third assignment