colorGray

Creates full spectrum, blue-green-orange-salmon, colormap that maps to linear grayscale.

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Creates a broad range color map that looks good in color as well as when reduced to grayscale for low cost publication.

Finished colormap encodes small values with a bluish color, intermediate values in green to orange, and large values with a redish/salmon color. The greyscale is linear.

RGBcolormap=colorGray(numberOfLevels,makeDebugPlot);

Cite As

Alexandre Tumlinson (2026). colorGray (https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12804-colorgray), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: Bipolar Colormap

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.0.0.0

input 'numberOfLevels' is now optional. Optimized for speed and readability by vectorizing code. Added the debug plotting options.

Thx to PederAxensten for suggestions and significant code snippet.