[yt-users] yt colormaps

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Renyue,

I'm not sure what cm is in this context, but if you use the string key
"jet" instead of cm.jet, it should work.  (It does for me.)

-Matt

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Renyue Cen <cen at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> I was using imshow in conjunction with tf = ColorTransferFunction((lim1,lim2)) and tf.add_layers(8,colormap=mycmap,w=widt,alpha=alpha),
> for which I can use mycmap=cm.spectral or cm.spectral to mention a few, but when I try cm.jet, it does not seem to exist,
> and I am still trying to find a suitable colormap for this application.
>
> Thanks,
> Renyue
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>
>> Hi Renyue,
>>
>> This list shows all of the colormaps available for anything that uses
>> matplotlib (such as projections, profiles, but not anything that uses
>> write_image or write_png or snapshot):
>>
>> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Show_colormaps
>>
>> You can also use these colormaps anywhere:
>>
>> algae (default)
>> kamae
>> black_green
>> cubehelix
>>
>> There are also a whole bunch of IDL and other colormaps that are
>> accessible, although I have not used them, which you can see a list of
>> by doing:
>>
>> from yt.visualization._colormap_data import color_map_luts
>> print "\n".join(sorted(color_map_luts))
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Renyue Cen <cen at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Where is the list of available colormaps located so I can see their colors?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Renyue
>>>
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