: Texture as an alternative to a cyclic colormap? In the visual presentation of scientific and mathematical data, it's common to want to use hue and value to represent a direction and an intensity.
In the visual presentation of scientific and mathematical data, it's common to want to use hue and value to represent a direction and an intensity. People seem to refer to this as a cyclic colormap. Below is a scientific example I've drawn. The circle on the upper left, labeled 1, defines the colormap, and 2-6 are applications to the visual depiction of various wave patterns.
Although this works, it has the disadvantage that it requires color. This is for a book that some people will use in digital form, in color, but others will have as a printed book with a color cover and a black and white interior. The best workaround I've found so far for the print users is to take this particular set of images and reproduce them in color on the back cover of the book, but that's obviously not a great solution.
Has anyone ever seen a variation on the idea of a cyclic colormap that uses texture instead of hue? For example, instead of the various shades of red I could have something like a black background with a random scattering of white dots on it. What I'm now representing with brighter red would have more dots, so it would look lighter in color. Instead of yellow I could have something like a parallel line or wood grain texture, with denser lines making it look lighter, and so on. One would have to come up with some creative way to continuously vary these textures going around in a circle. For example, orange might be replaced with something like a 50/50 mixture of dots and lines.
I've attempted below to sketch an example of what I'm talking about, but I don't think it is a very good realization of the idea, since, e.g., the lines are kind of big, so they hang over from one area to another and decrease the resolution of the plot. In a real circular texture map, this would be defined in some way that would extend all the way around the circle, not just in the upper right quadrant as I've done here.
related: stackoverflow.com/questions/23712207/cyclic-colormap-without-visual-distortions-for-use-in-phase-angle-plots
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