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colormap

colormap Build Status

all colormap output

Usage

npm install colormap

let colormap = require('colormap')
 
let colors = colormap({
    colormap: 'jet'
    nshades: 10,
    format: 'hex',
    alpha: 1
})

API

list = colormap(options?)

Property Default Meaning
colormap 'jet' Color map name from the image above or a custom color scale — a sequence of {index, rgb} objects, where index is 0..1 number and rgb is a length 3/4 array with values for the color stop.
nshades 72 Number of colors in returned array, the minimum number depends on colormap.
format 'hex' 'hex' for #aabbcc, 'rgbaString' for rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), 'rba' for [255, 255, 255, 1], 'float' for [1, 1, 1, 1].
alpha 1 Alpha range, can be an array with alpha values or just 2 values for start/end colors.

Credits

Color maps are inspired by matplotlib color scales, cmocean oceanographic colormaps, cosine gradients and others. Thanks to authors of these libs for their invaluable work.

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Keywords

colormap, color map, color, hex, rgb, color-space, cubehelix, inferno, magma, plasma, viridis, matplotlib, oceanography, seismic, color gradient, color range, colorscale, color scale, plot, graph

Dependencies (1)

lerp

Dependents (12)

yasgui-yasr, d3-foresight, gl-mesh3d, calendar-heatmap, gl-simplicial-complex, apply-colormap, gl-surface-plot, gl-spectrogram, gl-surface3d, fivetwelve-cli-debug-driver, ableton-push2, and more