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52 Things You Should Know About Geocomputing
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Turn data into colours #44

Closed mycarta closed 4 years ago

mycarta commented 5 years ago

This is a fantastic chapter, could not help reading it given my obsession with colours.

I fixed the link to the figure already as it was out of date.

A must read; great review of a lot of things that go on in the background when we tinker with colour. I like the light, fun style, and the narrative form of evolving from simple to complex really works. I like the reference to 'objects'.

The only thing I wonder: can you label (e.g. A, B, C, D) the four panels in the figure and reference them in the text as you go (or just reference them as first from top etcetera)?

ghost commented 4 years ago

Ehhh I could, but I more or less intended to not do that. It's just an illustration; the precise effects are not important, I'm trying to get you to think about the idea that there is a single 'best' answer in any case. See it in the light of what I'm trying to say ... And then, I guess if you can't figure it out yourself, is that relevant? The only relevance is that you can see that different 'views' give different patterns.

What you could do, if you want, is add as legend: 'figure it out yourself, intentionally not telling you which is which. It's not the point. Agile == Think for yourself!'

mycarta commented 4 years ago

OK I appreciate the clarification about your design intention, that is very much your decision, so I will leave it.