Hi all,

Don't know if anybody else has found a colormap that is aesthetically pleasing 
and prints well in black and white. I found one after a lot of Googling. 
Perhaps useful for plotting figures in journals that charge a lot for colour 
figures. I got the colormap from: 
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/74/22101/01028735.pdf%3Farnumber%3D1028735

I decided to code it up (see attached text file for the cdict). If anybody 
finds it useful, maybe it could go into the default colormaps that ship with 
matplotlib.

cdict = {'red'   : ((0.000, 0.00, 0.00),
                    (0.125, 0.15, 0.15),
                    (0.250, 0.30, 0.30),
                    (0.375, 0.60, 0.60),
                    (0.500, 1.00, 1.00),
                    (0.625, 0.90, 0.90),
                    (0.750, 0.90, 0.90),
                    (0.875, 0.90, 0.90),
                    (1.000, 1.00, 1.00)),
         
         'green' : ((0.000, 0.00, 0.00),
                    (0.125, 0.15, 0.15),
                    (0.250, 0.15, 0.15),
                    (0.375, 0.20, 0.20),
                    (0.500, 0.25, 0.25),
                    (0.625, 0.50, 0.50),
                    (0.750, 0.75, 0.75),
                    (0.875, 0.90, 0.90),
                    (1.000, 1.00, 1.00)),
         
         'blue'  : ((0.000, 0.00, 0.00),
                    (0.125, 0.50, 0.50),
                    (0.250, 0.75, 0.75),
                    (0.375, 0.50, 0.50),
                    (0.500, 0.15, 0.15),
                    (0.625, 0.00, 0.00),
                    (0.750, 0.10, 0.10),
                    (0.875, 0.50, 0.50),
                    (1.000, 1.00, 1.00))
         }

Regards,
-- Damon

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Damon McDougall
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
d.mcdoug...@warwick.ac.uk



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