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CMasher: Scientific colormaps for making accessible, informative and 'cmashing' plots

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: CMasher is a Python package that provides a curated collection of scientific colormaps, showcased in the online documentation (https://cmasher.readthedocs.io). The colormaps in CMasher are all designed to be perceptually uniform sequential using the 'viscm' package; most of them are color-vision deficiency friendly; and they cover a wide range of different color combinations to accommodate for most applications. It aims to provide several alternatives to commonly used colormaps, like 'chroma' and 'rainforest' for 'jet'; 'sunburst' for 'hot'; 'neutral' for 'binary'; and 'fusion' and 'redshift' for 'coolwarm'. With CMasher, I hope to help others with picking the correct colormap for the job.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.02004

Author: Ellert van der Velden

Institutions: ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Data Visualization and Analytics

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Australian Research Council

Award: ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions