Colormaps

Colormaps

Pratiman Patel, 10 August 2021

2 min read.

Description

Colormaps is a library of collection of colormaps or color palettes for Python. It’s written in Python with matplotlib and numpy as dependencies. You can use Colormaps to customize matplotlib plots.

Colormaps has colormaps or color palettes from:

Docs:

For latest documentation, please visit: https://pratiman-91.github.io/colormaps/

Dependencies

Python with:

  • matplotlib
  • numpy

Installation

git clone https://github.com/pratiman-91/colormaps.git
cd colormaps
python setup.py install

Finding Colormaps

Colormaps are pre-built and loaded at the time of importing.

Using Colormaps

  • Importing Colormaps
import colormaps as cmaps
cmaps.drought_severity

brwnyl

cmaps.ice

ice

  • Getting discrete number of levels
cmaps.ice.discrete(10)

ice_discrete

  • Shifting the colormap
cmaps.ice.shift(0.5)

ice_shift

  • Shifting and then discrete levels
cmaps.ice.shift(0.5).discrete(10)

ice_shift_discrete

  • Discrete levels then cut the colormap from left side
cmaps.ice.discrete(11).cut(0.25, 'left')

ice_shift_discrete

  • Concatenate two or more colormaps
from colormaps.utils import concat
concat1 = concat(["cmocean_ice", "BkBlAqGrYeOrReViWh200"])

concat_1

  • Concatenate two or more colormaps based on ratio
from colormaps.utils import concat
concat2 = concat([cmaps.cmocean_ice, cmaps.BkBlAqGrYeOrReViWh200], ratios=[0.25,0.75])

concat_1

  • Matplotlib usage example
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import colormaps as cmaps
import numpy as np

x = y = np.arange(-3.0, 3.01, 0.05)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)

sigmax = sigmay = 1.0
mux = muy = sigmaxy=0.0

Xmu = X-mux
Ymu = Y-muy

rho = sigmaxy/(sigmax*sigmay)
z = Xmu**2/sigmax**2 + Ymu**2/sigmay**2 - 2*rho*Xmu*Ymu/(sigmax*sigmay)
denom = 2*np.pi*sigmax*sigmay*np.sqrt(1-rho**2)
Z = np.exp(-z/(2*(1-rho**2))) / denom

plt.pcolormesh(X,Y,Z,cmap=cmaps.cubehelix3_16_r)
plt.colorbar()

concat_1

⇠ SkewT Plot from WRF outputs

Convert spatial data to WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) ⇢