(the repository formerly known as ViridisABQ)
If from time to time you create scientific visualizations, it is likely that you do so with one of these softwares that use a beautiful rainbow color map. Well ... nope. It's not beautiful. It's evil. These rainbow color maps we all know by heart? They show us things that aren't even there. And the next moment they hide the rest from us.
Please see for yourself:
- How Bad Is Your Colormap? (Or, Why People Hate Jet – and You Should Too) | Pythonic Perambulations
- Why you should never use 'jet' colormap | Chong-Chong He
- A dangerous rainbow: Why colormaps matter. » Behind the Headlines - MATLAB & Simulink
But thanks to some great creatures, help is at hand: cleverly optimized colormaps for sequential and for diverging datasets. And here you can download them for the FEM software Abaqus CAE - SIMULA™ by Dassault Systèmes®.
From now on, you can paint your Abaqus simulations in:
Viridisfor sequential data orCividis(basically Viridis compensated for color vision deficiencies) andCool2Warmfor diverging data
Copy abaqus_v6.env into your home directory or any other directory where Abaqus searches for environment files.
Have a look at Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide, chapter 4.1 to see where these directories might be. You can reach the guide from Abaqus -> Help -> Search & Browse Guides... -> Abaqus Installation and Licensing Guide.
If you already have an abaqus_v6.env file or even use an onCaeStartup() routine, simply copy the contents from this repository to the appropriate place.
Abaqus will load the instructions at start-up and automatically make Viridis, Cividis and Cool2Warm available in the Visualization module.
This file and the colormap in it are released under the CC0 license / public domain dedication. We would appreciate credit if you use or redistribute these colormaps, but do not impose any legal restrictions.
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