This year, one of the pictures at the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, caught my interest. Poelke and Polthier’s Lifted Domain Coloring is a coloring scheme for visualizing properties of complex functions: it maps numbers in the complex plane stereographically to the Riemann sphere, and assigns a hue based on the inclination angle (though I’m not sure that much is gaine
![Lifted Domain Coloring | Syntopia](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/dcdb27bc162f312b010b5175d8f2c43d0cb1bf14/height=288;version=1;width=512/http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hvidtfeldts.net%2Fmedia%2Fldc0.jpg)