If you look at the photo of Curie using any divergent colormap, you get roughly the same effect. The problem is that the colormap is divergent and replaces white with a dark color, not anything intrinsic to jet. If you map this image with BWR or roma you end up with similarly unappealing results.
IMO roma is actually the worst of the bunch, despite being the most 'scientific.' Whoever decided that deep, saturated blue and dull brown-red are equally distinct from beige needs to reevalute their model of color perception.
IMO roma is actually the worst of the bunch, despite being the most 'scientific.' Whoever decided that deep, saturated blue and dull brown-red are equally distinct from beige needs to reevalute their model of color perception.