taxaprisma

0.0.12 • Public • Published

taxaprisma

Colors and silhouettes images for taxa.

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why?

To make it easier to see what kind of higher order taxonomic group a taxon belongs to (e.g. mammal, insect).

install

npm install taxaprisma --save

usage

colorFor

Returns color for taxon path.

var taxaprisma = require('taxaprisma');
var htmlHexColorCode = taxaprisma.colorFor('Animalia Mammalia Homo sapiens');
// ---> '#FF4500'

imageFor

Returns applicable image url for taxon path.

var taxaprisma = require('taxaprisma');
var imageUrl = taxaprisma.imageFor('Animalia Mammalia Homo sapiens');
// ---> 'http://phylopic.org/assets/images/submissions/e5b0cde8-beab-48dc-b77c-d48b16c6a05e.thumb.png'

imageDataUrlFor

Returns inlined image in data url.

var taxaprisma = require('taxaprisma');
var imageUrl = taxaprisma.imageDataUrlFor('Animalia Mammalia Homo sapiens');
// ---> 'data:image/png;base64,...'

imageLicenseFor

Returns the license text for image.

var taxaprisma = require('taxaprisma');
var licenseText = taxaprisma.imageLicenseFor('Animalia Mollusca Polyplacophora Neoloricata')
// ---> 'by Marcello under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/'

Many images were published under cc0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) .

css

A css style sheet is also available: taxaprisma.css.

anything missing?

Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

colors and silhouettes

taxon color color code silhouettes
Fungi image #F52887 image
Plantae image #73AC13 image
Insecta image #FF4500 image
Mollusca image #FF4500 image
Arachnida image #FF4500 image
Aves image #1E90FF image
Reptilia image #1E90FF image
Actinopterygii image #1E90FF image
Elasmobranchii image #1E90FF image
Amphibia image #1E90FF image
Mammalia image #1E90FF image

origins

colors were inspired by iNaturalist

images obtained through PhiloPic

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npm i taxaprisma

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0.0.12

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MIT

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Collaborators

  • jhpoelen
  • gbod