A collection of scientific and aesthetic colormaps usable in MATLAB, currently under construction!
All colormaps are designed to function exactly like the built-ins:
- Call
viridisorviridis()to return a256 x 3array of RGB color values in the range[0,1]. - Call
viridis(m)to return anm x 3array of RGB color values in the range[0,1], interpolated linearly from the base data.
To showcase any colormap against several tests and samples, call showcase_cmap(viridis).
Please contact me if you believe I am missing a license, a source, or have misattributed anything. I absolutely want to give credit where credit is due because your hard work is important to me and to my peers.
- Cynthia Brewer for popularizing the idea of accessible colormaps in the scientific community via a well-researched dissertation effort and providing a helpful website demonstrating the colormaps in action. [source]
- Fabio Crameri for numerous colormaps and for a robust scientific approach to scientific color graphics in two dimensions. [source]
- Kenneth Moreland for devising a general method for producing useful colormaps appropriate for illuminated surface representations in three dimensions, and related research, and for the numeric values of the blackbody colormap. [source]
- Nathaniel J. Smith and Stefan van der Walt for inferno, magma and plasma. [source]
- Eric Firing for viridis. [source]
- Jamie R. Nuñez, Christopher R. Anderton and Ryan S. Renslow for a well-researched and mathematically optimized color-deficiency safe colormap inspired by viridis. [source]
- Charlie Loyd for sinebow, a smoother variant of the circular HSV. [source]
- Bastion Bechtold for twilight, a color-deficiency safe, perceptually uniform, symmetric diverging colormap. [source]