oceColorsViridis {oce} | R Documentation |
This is patterned on a matlab/python scheme [1] that blends from yellow to blue in a way that is designed to reproduce well in black-and-white, and to be interpretable by those with certain forms of color blindness [3-4].
oceColorsViridis(n)
n |
number of colors to create. |
Dan Kelley
[1] A blog item on the Viridis (and related) matplotlib color scales is at http://bids.github.io/colormap/.
[2] Light, A., and P. J. Bartlein, 2004. The End of the Rainbow? Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(40), doi:10.1029/2004EO400002.
[3] Martin Jakobsson, Ron Macnab, and Members of the Editorial Board, IBCAO. Selective comparisons of GEBCO (1979) and IBCAO (2000) maps. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/ibcao_gebco_comp.html.
[4] Stephenson, David B., 2005. Comment on “Color schemes for improved data graphics,” by A. Light and P. J. Bartlein. Eos Trans. AGU, 86(20).
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library(oce) imagep(volcano, col=oceColorsViridis(128), zlab="oceColorsViridis")