From 7e0750f62c22dc5fbb98f57eb8c664a11a5ae3cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MMesch Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:13:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0b4e91b..0975fe2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # colormap2d -This python package provides functionality for 2D colormaps. 2D colormaps -can be used to visualise images of two parameters at the same time. Typical -examples are: +This python package provides a carefully designed set of 2D colormaps that live in the perceptually uniform colorspace CAM02-UCS (Luo et al., 2006; Smith et al., 2016). Functionality to use the colormaps with matplotlib is included, as well as scripts that can be used from the 3D animation software Blender to design them. + +2D colormaps are used to visualise images of two parameters at the same time, e.g.: * a complex function's magnitude and argument as a function of its real and imaginary part * a spatial map of windspeed and direction * a time-frequency image of a signals strength and phase (spectrogram)