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Atomistic Spin Simulation Framework
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Visualisation: use vector lengths in color maps #402

Open GPMueller opened 6 years ago

GPMueller commented 6 years ago

Surface coloring is confusing for vectorfields with non-normalized vectors: even though a vector is near zero and the arrow is not visible, the surface beneath it may exhibit a color.

Maybe using saturation (in [0,1]) given by the vector norm would be an option. However, using this on arrows may not be a great idea...

GPMueller commented 5 years ago

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV