Applications of Color in Visualizations

Colin Ware, in the latter part of Ch. 4 (pp. 119-144) talks about the use of color in visualizations. He presents a number of strategies, and illustrates them with examples. At the end of the chapter (pp. 143-144) he summarizes a number of points that bear on the design of visualizations. Use this post to either discuss his points and examples, or to show new examples that illustrate his points.

Introduction to INF 143 Blog Spring 2011

The purpose of this blog is to allow additional discussion of matters pertaining to the Information Visualization course. Everyone in the class needs to become a member of this blog, and activity in the blog constitutes 20% of your course grade. We welcome original posts as well as discussion about other people's posts. From time to time the faculty and/or reader for the course will participate as well. Please get into the habit of regularly checking the blog, and regularly contributing to it.