<![CDATA[Why So Many Weather Maps Are Rainbow-Colored (And Why They Shouldn’t Be)]]>An interesting article I completely agree with:

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90138569/why-so-many-weather-maps-are-rainbow-colored-and-why-they-shouldnt-be

There are now some better gradient to represent continuous data : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/intro-to-viridis.html

Wouldn't it be possible to allow the user to choose one on these predefined gradient?

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/4567/why-so-many-weather-maps-are-rainbow-colored-and-why-they-shouldn-t-beRSS for NodeMon, 13 Apr 2026 06:04:54 GMTMon, 18 Sep 2017 11:39:44 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why So Many Weather Maps Are Rainbow-Colored (And Why They Shouldn’t Be) on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:18:08 GMT]]>Ok. Nice to see the preset is an open issue. Here is a test I've just done:

Plasma gradient

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Vs default one

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]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7478https://community.windy.com/post/7478Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why So Many Weather Maps Are Rainbow-Colored (And Why They Shouldn’t Be) on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:45:04 GMT]]>see https://community.windy.com/topic/3578/ambiguous-color-mapping

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/7477https://community.windy.com/post/7477Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:45:04 GMT