[Paraview] change default color map

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Nico,

I'm curious what color map you are planning to replace the "notorious" default with. Like one previous respondent, I am guessing you are thinking of using the map of rainbow colors.

If that is the case, I suggest thinking twice. Although those colors are attractive, they do a bad job representing data (and ParaView is all about accurately representing data). The problems with the rainbow color map are well documented, but one good paper that clearly describes them is titled "Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful" by Borland and Taylor. A simple Google search will help you find it. There have also since been perceptual studies comparing the rainbow map to the default in ParaView, and ParaView's default cool-warm significantly outperforms.

-Ken

Sent from my iPad so blame autocorrect.

On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com<mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com>> wrote:

Hi Nico,

In the Color Map Editor, choose your preferred color map. Next, scroll down to the very bottom. There are a few buttons with icons that look like this:

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If you click the button on the right, it will save your current color map as the default for all arrays. The button in the middle will save the current color map for all arrays that have the same name as the current array that is being color mapped from the object selected in the Pipeline Browser. The button on the left will restore the application-default colormap - to save it as the default, you would then need to click the middle or right buttons, depending on your need.

I hope that is clear.

Best regards,
Cory

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer at gmail.com<mailto:nico.schloemer at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Whenever I open new data in ParaView, it will first get displayed in the notorious blue-red colormap. I would like to change that default here to something more suitable for my cause, but couldn't find how. Any hints?

Cheers,
Nico

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