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> Matlab is using a roughly perceptually linearly luminant colormap they call Parula now. Good job Matlab.

And Matplotlib is switching to a perceptually-linear default colormap called "viridis" with the 2.0 release (due early this month): http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html

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I’m glad that people are finally catching up to Cynthia Brewer (who has been discussing the issue for 20+ years) and using reasonable color models to think about data displays.

It would be nice if color pickers, color manipulation tools in graphics software, etc. would also switch to more perceptually relevant models.

If anyone wants to play with the CIECAM02 model discussed in the talk you linked, I made an implementation in Javascript several years back, https://github.com/jrus/chromatist/

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