In the Dark

It’s time to share a paper on arXiv at the interface between astronomy and gastronomy. Here is the abstract:

We aim at facilitating the visualization of astrophysical data for several tasks, such as uncovering patterns, presenting results to the community, and facilitating the understanding of complex physical relationships to the public. We present pastamarkers, a customized Python package fully compatible with matplotlib, that contains unique pasta-shaped markers meant to enhance the visualization of astrophysical data. We prove that using different pasta types as markers can improve the clarity of astrophysical plots by reproducing some of the most famous plots in the literature.

arXiv:2403.20314

Here’s an example of a colour-magnitude diagram plotted with pasta markers, with the main sequence as Lasagne, etc.

You can download the pastamarkers package here.

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