Scientific color maps and standardization tools
Scientific color maps
Scientific color maps and standardization tools.
Scicomap is a package that provides scientific color maps and tools to standardize your favourite color maps if you don’t like the built-in ones.
Scicomap currently provides sequential, bi-sequential, diverging, circular, qualitative and miscellaneous color maps. You can easily draw examples, compare the rendering, see how colorblind people will perceive the color maps. I will illustrate the scicomap capabilities below.
This package is heavily based on the Event Horyzon Plot package and uses good color maps found in the the python portage of the Fabio Crameri, cmasher, palettable, colorcet and cmocean
Motivation
The accurate representation of data is essential. Many common color maps distort data through uneven colour gradients and are often unreadable to