Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6) : Elegant Figures

Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6) : Elegant Figures

I do this my self but this lovely hand crafted visualisation asks me the question why should all visualisations be mechanically crisp? I think it makes the data look more cerain that it is.
lovely image any way.

Encoding quantitative data with color is (sometimes literally) a simple matter of paint-by-numbers. In 1964 Richard Grumm and his team of engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory hand-colored the first image of Mars taken from an interplanetary probe as they waited for computers to process the data.