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A colour scheme for the display of astronomical intensity images

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arxiv 1108.5083 v2 pith:NWGILDOM submitted 2011-08-25 astro-ph.IM

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I describe a colour scheme that is appropriate for the screen display of intensity images. This -- unlike many currently available schemes -- is designed to be monotonically increasing in terms of its perceived brightness. Also, when printed on a black and white postscript printer, the scheme results in a greyscale with monotonically increasing brightness. This scheme has recently been incorporated into the radio astronomical analysis packages CASA and AIPS.

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