- AutorIn
- M. Sc. Pascal Nardini Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
- Prof. Dr. Min ChenDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- Francesca SamselCenter for Agile Technology, University of Texas at Austin
- Dr. Roxana Bujack
- M. Sc. Michael Böttinger
- Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann
- Titel
- The Making of Continuous Colormaps
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-342880
- Abstract (EN)
- Continuous colormaps are integral parts of many visualization techniques, such as heat-maps, surface plots, and flow visualization. Despite that the critiques of rainbow colormaps have been around and well-acknowledged for three decades, rainbow colormaps are still widely used today. One reason behind the resilience of rainbow colormaps is the lack of tools for users to create a continuous colormap that encodes semantics specific to the application concerned. In this paper, we present a web-based software system, CCC-Tool (short for Charting Continuous Colormaps) under the URL https://ccctool.com, for creating, editing, and analyzing such application-specific colormaps. We introduce the notion of “colormap pecification (CMS)” that maintains the essential semantics required for defining a color mapping scheme. We provide users with a set of advanced utilities for constructing CMS’s with various levels of complexity, examining their quality attributes using different plots, and exporting them to external application software. We present two case studies, demonstrating that the CCC-Tool can help domain scientists as well as visualization experts in designing semantically-rich colormaps.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Einreichung bei IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- CCC-Tool, charting continuous colormaps, colormap specification, perceptual uniformity, colormap analysis
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 004
- Förder- / Projektangaben
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- eingereichte Version / Preprint
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-342880
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 19.06.2019
- Dokumenttyp
- Preprint
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch