Diverging color maps for scientific visualization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5876 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 92-103

  Moreland, Kenneth ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR MAP; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; SATURATED COLORS; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALAR VALUES; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR;

EID: 72449174885     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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