a survey of colormaps in visualization
Colormap design
Color spaces
Perceptual color spaces
(with considering human perception)
Color apperance model (human perceives same color differently in different views)
Basic color spaces
RGB, CMYK, HSV, HSL
CIEXYZ(not perceptual uniform) --> CIELab(perceptual uniform)
for better data perception
beyond data comprehension
Rule-Based Colormap Selection
User-study-based Colormap Generation
Procedural Colormap Generation
Aethestic
Energy saving
Semantics
rules for using rainbow colormap
Data-Driven Colormap Generation and Optimization
color transformations (???)
Discrete Colormaps for Particular Data Types
Colormap optimization
Perceptually-Based Optimization
Colormap Applications
scientific visualization
information visualization
high-dimensional visualization
time series
Graphs
sparial-temporal data
2D plot and Matrices