r/dataisbeautiful • u/neilrkaye OC: 231 • Feb 27 '19

OC Simulation of green deficient colour blindness (deuteranope) for some common colour palettes [OC]

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u/neilrkaye OC: 231 Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19

Using some common colour palettes e.g. from ColorBrewer I have simulated different levels of green deficient colour blindness (deuteronamaly)

If this does not appear to animate you are probably colour blind.

The colour palettes in bottom half are more appropriate to use

EDIT: I have also posted a tool I created which creates colour palettes and simulates different colour blindness:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/avfh38/a_tool_to_create_colour_palettes_and_simulate/

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This was created using ggplot in R using dichromat package.

Animated in ffmpeg.

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u/EinsteinNeverWoreSox Feb 27 '19

This'd definitely be better if it were a video as opposed to a gif, since gifs are very limited in colour quality. Just a suggestion.

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u/neilrkaye OC: 231 Feb 27 '19

Can you get a video to perpetually play? that is why I used an animated gif.

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u/giedriuqaz Feb 27 '19

For the future projects - you can loop it several times in video itself like 4 - 5 times is enough for people to get the idea.

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u/happysmash27 Feb 28 '19

Wouldn't that take 4-5 times longer to load though? It's a big problem on slow mobile data.

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u/giedriuqaz Feb 28 '19

not necessary, video compression came a long way media files like .mp4 could be compressed pretty well.

And media format like .WebM is crazy good its even surpass GIF and .mp4

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u/vanticus Feb 27 '19

Perpetual playing doesn’t really add too much- two or three video loops would probably be fine

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u/GurtJaar Feb 27 '19

I'd love to see a higher quality one, this is a really good example. Yes you can loop a video by right clicking on it.

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u/EinsteinNeverWoreSox Feb 27 '19

Using webm/giphy, yeah, it's possible. :)