Tutorial by Examples: colormaps

Apart from the built-in colormaps defined in the colormaps reference (and their reversed maps, with '_r' appended to their name), custom colormaps can also be defined. The key is the matplotlib.cm module. The below example defines a very simple colormap using cm.register_cmap, containing a single c...

The original default colourmap of MATLAB (replaced in version R2014b) called jet is ubiquitous due to its high contrast and familiarity (and was the default of matplotlib for compatibility reasons). Despite its popularity, traditional colormaps often have deficiencies when it comes to representing d...