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A photograph of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (by Henri Manuel around 1920), the Earth from space, and an apple demonstrate the superiority of scientific colour maps as they are shown a in their original form (middle) and in distorted (left) and in undistorted (right) colour versions.

Scientific colour map demonstration

A photograph of Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the Earth from space, and an apple demonstrate the superiority of scientific colour maps.

#endrainbow icon to indicate the misuse of colour gradients.

Endrainbow

An icon to indicate the misuse of unscientific colour gradients that visually distort the underlying data and are not accessible to colour-vision deficient viewers.

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