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For color blind people, please provide a better usable color bar scheme for numeric values

Open stefan-am opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

I am red-green color blind and have big difficulties in assigning the color at a spot on the model to a value on the color bar. It reduces the fun to use PrusaSlicer …

According to the link below, 8 % of all men and 0.5 % women are affected by this. For example, for my eyes the volumetric flow could be anything between 5 and 7.6 in this picture:

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I found the following interesting source about this topic: ](url)https://www.technia.com/blog/how-to-choose-abaqus-colormaps/

I personally found greyscale colormaps much easier to use (in other software like FEA simulation programs). Maybe also the “Cividis colormap” mentioned in the link above should be considered:

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An very helpful “luxury” feature would be to read the value below the cursor tip and display it near the cursor, as demonstrated in this picture:

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stefan-am avatar Feb 22 '23 18:02 stefan-am

I like your second tip about some kind of mouse probe. Could be a nice feature, but for sure not part of 2.6.0 :D

kubispe1 avatar Feb 22 '23 21:02 kubispe1

I just wanted to chime in to say that I too struggle immensely with the legend, I have to use a camera app (Color Grab) on my phone just to distinguish the values

tommymonk avatar May 04 '24 09:05 tommymonk