On 2015年02月18日 6:31 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > The problem I have with hcl is that while it is technically "colorful" > (or whatever the term may be), only the reds really come out because the > other colors are only used when either really light or really dark. > Perhaps squashing the brightness range a bit and let the natural > lightness of yellow and the natural darkness of blue come through on > their own. (does that even make any sense to anybody else? it makes > sense in my head, but I am certainly am not an expert in color perception) > > Ben Root > > P.S. - Of course, my own color perception weirdness might be at play > here and the colormap looks perfectly fine to everybody else... My own reaction to it is that it seems like a nicely *functional* colormap, one I would want to have available and probably would sometimes use, but it is not particularly aesthetically *pleasing*. I think this is consistent with Olga's earlier post as well. Eric