false colour

British  

noun

1. colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter

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Example Sentences

False colour flat mosaic of a basin on Mercury.Credit:

From Nature

In the saturated false colour of the visualization, it looked oddly like the moving ring patterns you get in the glow discharge of an old fluorescent tube — something Jeff was too young to have seen.

From Nature

The satellite views show a "natural" view of the surface as your eye would see it and a "false colour" view highlighting the water.

From BBC

A nerve cell in the human brain, seen in a false colour under a scanning electron microscope.Credit:

From Nature

The first image shows the volcano in natural colour and the second in false colour, which by highlighting vegetation in red shows the damage caused by lava.

From The Guardian