Colourbar naming convention
DUG Insight comes with a set of colourbars for data display. Below is a complete list of all default colourbars, grouped by similar characteristics.
Note: Click on the images below to view them in their original size.
Banded
Colourbars with the prefix "Banded" have the following characteristics:
- multiple bands of colour
- strong contrasts
- hard edges.
NegPos
Colourbars with the prefix "NegPos" are intended for zero-mean (symmetric) data with white or neutral central colour.
Rainbow
Colourbars with the prefix "Rainbow" are variations on rainbows (visible light spectra).
Ramp
Colourbars with the prefix "Ramp" are smooth gradients without hard boundaries.
Seismic
Colourbars with the prefix "Seismic" are seismic colourbars with inspiration.
Thresh
Colourbars with the prefix "Thresh" have strong transitions at specific values.
Note: For those of you interested in minimising data distortion by using perceptually uniform colour-maps. We've made some DUG-Insight colourbars inspired by Fabio Crameri's scientific colour-maps, which can be downloaded here.
For more information on the originals see the reference below: "Perceptually uniform colour maps are used in this study to prevent visual distortion of the data (Crameri 2018a,b)." Crameri, F. (2018a), Scientific colour-maps. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1243862 Crameri, F. (2018b), Geodynamic diagnostics, scientific visualisation and StagLab 3.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2541-2562, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-2541-2018