In our blog entry on “Visual Analytics with Complementary and Analogous Color Harmony”, we discussed how to build the Munsell Color Wheel and presented Complementary and Analogous  color harmony examples. In today’s blog entry, we highlight how to combine these concepts to  build a complex color harmony for a scientific data visualization of a computationally modeled hurricane.
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Color has always fascinated me. When I was a young girl I was flabbergasted when I’d witness a woman whose outfit combined two different reds. I wondered ~ did she KNOW the colors didn’t “match?” Did she realize it was a huge error in judgement when she chose that outfit? It disturbed me. If I had any clairvoyance, I would have known that those curiosities would fuel me forward to my career.

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As I’m siting at my desk with a pencil in my hand, and a search light in my head turned on – I find myself on a quest to find a visual image for my inspiration. It flickers and fades, but I’m like an archeologist, I won’t give up, I’ll be excavating my soul with a sharp pencil and I’ll dig it out. I will bring it to life, give it a shape, and make it visible. I will show others what’s keeps lurking in my head since I was a little girl. I’ll find the way…

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A galaxy with light beams trailing off into the distance

Planets in Star Wars films often challenge scientific standards of real life environments and their resulting soil surfaces. However, these intriguing lands, even if geologically odd, are truly fun to imagine and of course, to notate.

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