Hi Guy,

I am also interested in the answer to this. The cplot function in the mpmath module does exactly this using matplotlib, but very inefficiently, as it computes the colour of each pixel in the image in hls colour-space and generates the corresponding rgb value directly. I suspect this is how it has to be done, as colormaps in matplotlib are 1D sequences and the black-white (lightness) value is really another dimension. However mpmath's method can be improved by doing the mapping using array operations instead of computing it for each pixel.

I've attached a function I wrote to reproduce the Sage cplot command in my own work. It's a bit old and can be improved. It takes the Arg and Abs of a complex array as the first two arguments - you can easily change this to compute these inside the function if you prefer. The line np.vectorize(hls_to_rgb) can be replaced - recent versions of matplotlib have a vectorized function called hsv_to_rgb() inside colors.py - so you replace the return line with the commented-out version if you first import hsv_to_rgb from colors.

I hope this helps.

I'm also curious: the plots you point to also show plots of the function "extrema", which are the phase singularities - does mathematica have a function that gives you these, or did you write your own function to find them?

regards,
Gary

Guy Rutenberg wrote:
Hi,

Is there a way to generate colormaps for complex-valued functions using matplotlib? The type of plots I'm looking for are like the plots in:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jan_Homann/Mathematics

Thanks in advance,

Guy
def cplot_like(ph, intens=None, int_exponent=1.0, s=1.0, l_bias=1.0, drape=0, 
is_like_mpmath=False):
    '''
    Implements the mpmath cplot-like default_color_function
    The combined image is generated in hls colourspace then transformed to rgb
    *phase*
        A filename or 2D n x m array containing phase data in the range -pi->pi
    *intens*
        If None, set to 1.0
        A filename or 2D n x m array containing intensity or amplitude data in 
the range 0->max
    *int_exponent*
        Default 1.0 applies the intens mask directly to the hls 
lightness-channel
        0.6 works well when drape==0
    *s*
        saturation. Defaults to 1.0. mpmath uses 0.8.
    *l_bias*
        biases the mean lightness value away from 0.5. mpmath uses 1.0.
        Examples are: l_bias=2 -> mean=0.33 (ie darker), l_bias=0.5 -> 
mean=0.66 (lighter)
    *drape*
        If >1, drapes a structured maximum filter of size drape x drape over 
the intensity data
    *is_like_mpmath*
        If True, sets int_exponent = 0.3, s = 0.8
    '''
    from colorsys import hls_to_rgb

    if type(ph) is str:
        cph = plt.imread(ph)/256.*2*pi-pi              # -pi->pi
        if len(cph.shape) == 3: cph = cph[...,0]      # if ph is RGB or RGBA, 
extract the R-plane
    else:
        cph = ph.copy()

    if intens is None:
        cintens = np.ones_like(cph)
    elif type(intens) is str:
        cintens = plt.imread(intens)/255.                     # 0->1
        if len(cintens.shape) == 3: cintens = cintens[...,0]   # if intens is 
RGB or RGBA, extract the R-plane
    else:
        cintens = intens.copy()
    cintens /= cintens.max()                         # autoscale intensity data 
to 0->1

    if drape > 1:
        # envelope the intensity
        cintens = maximum_filter(cintens, size=drape)

    h = ((cph + pi) / (2*pi)) % 1.0

    if is_like_mpmath:
        # apply mpmath values
        int_exponent = 0.3
        s = 0.8

    l = 1.0 - l_bias/(l_bias+cintens**int_exponent)
    v_hls_to_rgb = np.vectorize(hls_to_rgb)

    #~ return hsv_to_rgb(dstack((h,np.ones_like(h),l)))
    return dstack(v_hls_to_rgb(h,l,s))
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