Many colormaps like Jet cause your eye to misunderstand important characteristics of your data. It is often best to simply blend from one color to another, or possibly through three. This file will makes such colormaps.
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Doug Hull (2020). MakeColorMap (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17552-makecolormap), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Inspired: myColorMap, Perceptually improved colormaps, Ogive optimization toolbox
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Amirali Nojoomi (view profile)
Great code,however, I have a hard time making a categorical color key with alternative black and white. Something like the build-in "colormap(lines)" but with only black and white!
Is it possible?
Julius Lein (view profile)
StefanoMas (view profile)
Works perfectly
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Kevin Quinn (view profile)
Works beautifully!
Stephen Cobeldick (view profile)
Dragon Yang: the error message is telling you that MATLAB cannot find this function on its path. Try downloading the M-file from this website and saving it to your working directory. Any search engine will provide step-by-step instructions too.
dragon yang (view profile)
I used this function on matlab2012a and it throw error like "Undefined function 'makeColorMap' for input arguments of type 'double'.":
My called codes are belows:
" peaks;
a = makeColorMap([1 0 0],[1 1 1],[0 0 1]);
colormap(a)
colorbar"
Would you give some solution?
Thanks.
Pearl (view profile)
Thank you for the code! It works well. I'm wondering how you made the color blocked in the image
Pia (view profile)
This is brilliant - just what I needed.
Bill (view profile)
very handy. i just have a simple question. How did you make the categorical color key in your figure? It seems hard to it by specifying middle colors. Thank you.
Bill (view profile)
very handy. i just have a simple question. How did you make the categorical color key in your figure? It seems hard to it by specifying middle colors. Thank you.
Matteo Niccoli (view profile)
Really good submission Doug. And the videos are incredibly useful for someone like me who is just starting the transition from scripts to functions. Thank you.
Dalle Ali (view profile)
really helps my university-project further. very useful :)
Arthur (view profile)
very useful tool.
Thorwald Stein (view profile)
Very easy to use with good results.