2537: Painbow Award

2021-11-03T22:01:08Z

Ted Shif: /* Explanation */ Initial explanation. Reference to colorblindness and portmanteau.

{{comic
| number = 2537
| date = November 3, 2021
| title = Painbow Award
| image = painbow_award.png
| titletext = This year, our team took home the dark blue ribbon, better than the midnight blue we got last year but still short of the winning navy blue.
}}

==Explanation==
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This comic makes fun of the sometimes displeasing color gradients used in the figures for scientific papers by suggesting that the scientists picking them are in competition to use the least pleasing gradient. The Peak Energy bar at the side is unhelpful as colors are repeated (white and green) and have no logical order to make clear the progression of Peak Energy levels. The bar also utilizes red and green in close proximity, which would be hard or impossible to distinguish for those with some forms of colorblindness.

The title of the comic is a portmanteau of "pain" and "rainbow" suggesting a humorous name for terrible gradients.

==Trivia==
* When originally uploaded, the caption used the phrase "color gradient" rather than "color scale"

==Transcript==
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:[A graph named 'Figure 2' with two axes is shown. The vertical axis is labeled 'λ' and the horizontal axis is labeled 'θ (phase)'. On the right side, a bar labeled 'Peak Energy' is shown, with colors starting from black, to green, to red, to green, to yellow, and to white from bottom to top. The center of the graph is a messy shape with ugly gradients from these colors.]
:Caption under the panel: Every year, disgruntled scientists compete for the Painbow Award for worst color scale.

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