cmocean perceptually-uniform colormaps

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Perceptually-uniform colormaps inspired by oceanography

http://matplotlib.org/cmocean

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These colormaps were developed by Kristen Thyng using viscm. They are perceptually uniform, as color should be when it serves as a numeric axis.

If these colormaps are useful for you, please consider citing our paper:

Thyng, K.M., C.A. Greene, R.D. Hetland, H.M. Zimmerle, and S.F. DiMarco. 2016. True colors of oceanography: Guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selection. Oceanography 29(3):9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.66

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Thyng, Kristen, et al. “True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection.” Oceanography, vol. 29, no. 3, The Oceanography Society, Sept. 2016, pp. 9–13, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.66.

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Acknowledgements

Inspired by: Oceanographic Data Visualized with MATLAB, CMRmap.m, Color Palette Tables (.cpt) for Matlab, Modified CMRmap, CubeHelix Colormap Generator: Beautiful and Versatile!, ColorBrewer: Attractive and Distinctive Colormaps, Mixing (MX) Oceanographic Toolbox for EM-APEX float data, jLab: A Matlab toolbox for data analysis, Argo Toolbox

Inspired: xcorr3, EOF, crameri perceptually uniform scientific colormaps, Cyclic color map, anomaly, How to estimate subglacial water routes, Intuitive RGB color values from XKCD, MatPlotLib Perceptually Uniform Colormaps, Daily Antarctic sea ice concentration, Arctic Sea Ice

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To view or report issues in this GitHub add-on, visit the GitHub Repository.

	07 Sep 18:01	2.02	port to github
Toolbox Zip	10 Jan 20:47	2.01	Updated the image.
Zip Toolbox	10 Jan 20:46	2.0	Added new rain, topo, diff, and tarn colormaps.
Download	28 Sep 22:10	1.5	Modified input parser, following a suggestion by Phelype Oleinik. Also, now, if no outputs are specified it sets the colormap of the current axes via colormap(gca,cmap) whereas previously it was simply colormap(cmap).
Download	25 Jan 19:37	1.4.0.0	Documentation fix. Added a new "negative" option for divergent colormaps.
Download	14 Sep 22:42	1.3.0.0	The 'zero' option for diverging colormaps has been extended to a 'pivot' syntax, which allows setting a pivot point to any value, zero or otherwise.
Download	29 Aug 18:00	1.2.0.0	Added a link to our Oceanography paper. Also added the feature to simply type "cmocean" to bring up a window showing colormap options.
Download	20 Jun 15:30	1.1.0.0

MLA	Thyng, Kristen, et al. “True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection.” Oceanography, vol. 29, no. 3, The Oceanography Society, Sept. 2016, pp. 9–13, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.66.
APA	Thyng, K., Greene, C., Hetland, R., Zimmerle, H., & DiMarco, S. (2016). True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection. Oceanography, 29(3), 9–13. The Oceanography Society. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5670%2Foceanog.2016.66
BibTeX	@article{Thyng_2016, doi = {10.5670/oceanog.2016.66}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5670%2Foceanog.2016.66}, year = 2016, month = {sep}, publisher = {The Oceanography Society}, volume = {29}, number = {3}, pages = {9--13}, author = {Kristen Thyng and Chad Greene and Robert Hetland and Heather Zimmerle and Steven DiMarco}, title = {True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection}, journal = {Oceanography} }