Tips for choosing a good scientific colormap.Documentation from the matplotlib plotting package site for choosing colormaps.This tool will convert your (small file size) image to how it would look to someone with various kinds of color blindness so that you can make better decisions about the colors you use.

A good summary in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) of visualization research and presentation of a tool for choosing good colormaps, aimed at atmospheric research but widely applicable.Nice summary of arguments against jet by Jake Vanderplas.An excellent series on jet and choosing colormaps that will really teach you what you need to know, by Matteo Niccoli.This is the article that started it all for me: Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?.Why jet is a bad colormap, and how to choose better: ¶ Reversed versions of all colormaps are available by appending “_r” to the colormap name, just as in matplotlib:

Make a colormap instance with cmap = (rgbin, N=10) given the rgb input array.

In : import cmocean In : cmdict = cmocean.

Tecplot 360 set values to percentages