LinearSegmentedColormap

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I’m trying to understand the usage of Colormaps, and LinearSegmentedColormaps in particular.

I can create segmentdata that looks like the example at the bottom of this message. Each color has a 3x9 list of values.

I can then construct a LinearSegmentedColormap as follows:

palette = LinearSegmentedColormap(‘my_colormap’,cdict)

the ‘N’ attribute of my palette object reports that the length of the colormap is 256. However, when I try to retrieve the color tuple for any value above 50, I get black:

palette(51) => (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)

Why aren’t there 256 different colors in my colormap?

–Mike

cdict = {‘blue’: [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],

[9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],

[0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],

[0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],

[0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],

[0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],

[0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],

[0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],

[1.0, 0.0, 0.0]],

‘green’: [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],

[9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],

[0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],

[0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],

[0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],

[0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],

[0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],

[0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],

[1.0, 0.0, 0.0]],

‘red’: [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],

[9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],

[0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],

[0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],

[0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],

[0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],

[0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],

[0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],

[1.0, 0.0, 0.0]]}

···

Michael Hearne

mhearne@…924…

(303) 273-8620

USGS National Earthquake Information Center

1711 Illinois St. Golden CO 80401

Senior Software Engineer

Synergetics, Inc.

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Michael Hearne wrote:

I'm trying to understand the usage of Colormaps, and LinearSegmentedColormaps in particular.

I can create segmentdata that looks like the example at the bottom of this message. Each color has a 3x9 list of values.

I can then construct a LinearSegmentedColormap as follows:
palette = LinearSegmentedColormap('my_colormap',cdict)

the 'N' attribute of my palette object reports that the length of the colormap is 256. However, when I try to retrieve the color tuple for any value above 50, I get black:

palette(51) => (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)

Why aren't there 256 different colors in my colormap?

Because your color values state that for any normalized value between .2 and 1, the color should be RGB = (0.0,0.0,0.0). In your color dictionary, the first number of each tuple/list specifies a value between 0 and 1 to go with that color level. You probably instead want to assign each color level to a level between 0 and 1. ie. For 5 levels, you want 0, .25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0.

Ryan

···

--Mike

cdict = {'blue': [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
          [9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],
          [0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],
          [0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],
          [0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],
          [0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],
          [0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],
          [0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],
          [1.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
'green': [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
           [9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],
           [0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],
           [0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],
           [0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],
           [0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],
           [0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],
           [0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],
           [1.0, 0.0, 0.0]],
'red': [[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
         [9.99999974738e-05, 0.749019622803, 0.749019622803],
         [0.0010000000475, 0.623529434204, 0.623529434204],
         [0.00200000009499, 0.498039215803, 0.498039215803],
         [0.00999999977648, 0.372549027205, 0.372549027205],
         [0.019999999553, 0.247058823705, 0.247058823705],
         [0.10000000149, 0.121568627656, 0.121568627656],
         [0.20000000298, 0.0, 0.0],
         [1.0, 0.0, 0.0]]}

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Michael Hearne
mhearne@...924... <mailto:mhearne@…924…>
(303) 273-8620
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
1711 Illinois St. Golden CO 80401
Senior Software Engineer
Synergetics, Inc.
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