othercolor

Extra colormaps for plotting. Contains diverging, sequential, categorical, and perceptual maps.

Version 1.7.0 (186 KB)
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2 Mar 2011
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Joshua Atkins (2026). othercolor (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30564-othercolor), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.7.0

Added all the colormaps from Mathematica.
Note: the "physical" and "gradient" maps are Mathematica functions, so they were sampled at 64 linearly spaced rgb points from 0 to 1 to fit with the MATLAB default.
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1.6.0

Included Oleg's suggestion to get rid of eval() statements.
Added ability to index colors numerically.
Added 200+ new colormaps from colorbrewer2.org
Added image files with pictures of the colormaps.
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