Every now and then, the geophysics community debates furiously about which colormap is best to display geophysical data. This is not a new issue and the starting point for this discussion seems to be roughly 1996 when Rogowitz and Treinish started to question the use of rainbow-like colormaps for scientific visualisation. […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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Introduction Mapping the depth of the oceans globally was one of the greatest successes of geophysics in the 20th century. Without bathymetry, we would not know the locations of mid-ocean ridges, volcanic seamounts, and transform faults, to name a few, all of which are key elements of plate tectonics. But […]
Introduction I was in Paris last week for the 2017 Subsurface Hackathon. It was superbly organised by Agile Scientific and Total. Together, they managed to draw a large (about 60 persons) and diverse crowd to participate to the challenge of producing some working and usable software in only two days. […]
Introduction This post is associated with a Jupyter notebook available on GitHub. In a previous post, I explained how to add colour maps to the 3D environment of OpendTect. The method is simply to convert the RGB image of the map into an indexed colour image. The resulting grid can […]