Perceptually Uniform Colormaps from MatPlotLib
The MatPlotLib Perceptually Uniform Colormaps submission includes the default colormap family and default line colororder family from MatPlotLib 2 and 3. This document shows examples of their usage.
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Overview
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VIRIDIS Default Colormap
close()
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image(X)
colormap(viridis)

CIVIDIS
colormap(cividis)

INFERNO
colormap(inferno)

MAGMA
colormap(magma)

PLASMA
colormap(plasma)

TWILIGHT (cyclical)
colormap(twilight)

TAB10 Default Line ColorOrder
N = 20; clf() axes('ColorOrder',tab10(N),'NextPlot','replacechildren') X = linspace(0,pi*3,1000); Y = bsxfun(@(x,n)n*sin(x+2*n*pi/N), X(:), 1:N); plot(X,Y, 'linewidth',4)

TAB20
clf() axes('ColorOrder',tab20(N),'NextPlot','replacechildren') plot(X,Y, 'linewidth',4)

TAB20B
clf() axes('ColorOrder',tab20b(N),'NextPlot','replacechildren') plot(X,Y, 'linewidth',4)

TAB20C
clf() axes('ColorOrder',tab20c(N),'NextPlot','replacechildren') plot(X,Y, 'linewidth',4)
