We talked about several alternative colormaps at figure club last week. Here are links to a few of them on the Matlab File Exchange.
lbmap.m -- four Matlab colormaps from the Light & Bartlein Eos article that Sally wrote about. These colormaps are useful for communicating color to people with colorblindess (and those without, too!).
haxby.m -- a Matlab colormap to implement the Haxby scheme, often used on bathymetric charts.
cbrewer -- tools to implement colormaps from colorbrewer.org (more info in Sally's post).
cpt-city -- Nick sent us this awesome site with tons of ideas for alternative colormaps and color schemes.
Do you have any great color resources? Leave a comment!
I found this website: http://geography.uoregon.edu/datagraphics/color_scales.htm . It gives you text files with RGB values for each colormap, so they're easy to implement in Matlab.
ReplyDeleteHi Dan,
ReplyDeleteI came across your post and really liked the colormap in the graphic meeting-recap-colors-in-figures.html in Sally's post. Do you have the MATLAB colormap file for this particular colormap? Thanks.
Vijay