setting user defined color map as default

Hi,

I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not work
and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user defined
color map interactively as default color map.

Cheers

Philipp

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Hi,

I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not
work and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user
defined color map interactively as default color map.

Cheers

Philipp

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I don't think there is any user-visible support for registering a
custom colormap.
However, it seems to me that adding the colormap to
matplotlib.cm.datad distionary is enough.
Note that the value need to be a dictionary of RGB specification, not
the actual colormap instance.

for example,

mycolormap = {'blue': ((0.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002),
          (1.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002)),
'green': ((0.0, 0.5, 0.5), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)),
'red': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0))}

matplotlib.cm.datad["mycolormap"] = mycolormap
rcParams["image.cmap"]="mycolormap"

Having a function (like jet in pylab) would not be also difficult.
Take a look at the definition of "jet" function (for example) in the
pylab.py.

We may be better to have a proper way to register a custom colormap.
I'll try to take a more look later, but any patch will be appreciated.

Regards,

-JJ

···

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Philipp Lies<philipp.lies@...982...> wrote:

Does no one have an idea? If not, this is a severe usability bug!

Philipp Lies wrote:

Hi,

I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not
work and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user
defined color map interactively as default color map.

Cheers

Philipp

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Jae-Joon Lee wrote:

I don't think there is any user-visible support for registering a
custom colormap.

I have it almost done; I will commit it shortly.

Eric

However, it seems to me that adding the colormap to
matplotlib.cm.datad distionary is enough.
Note that the value need to be a dictionary of RGB specification, not
the actual colormap instance.

(I will have a more general solution than this.)

···

for example,

mycolormap = {'blue': ((0.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002),
          (1.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002)),
'green': ((0.0, 0.5, 0.5), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)),
'red': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0))}

matplotlib.cm.datad["mycolormap"] = mycolormap
rcParams["image.cmap"]="mycolormap"

Having a function (like jet in pylab) would not be also difficult.
Take a look at the definition of "jet" function (for example) in the
pylab.py.

We may be better to have a proper way to register a custom colormap.
I'll try to take a more look later, but any patch will be appreciated.

Regards,

-JJ

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Philipp > Lies<philipp.lies@...982...> wrote:

Does no one have an idea? If not, this is a severe usability bug!

Philipp Lies wrote:

Hi,

I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not
work and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user
defined color map interactively as default color map.

Cheers

Philipp

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Jae-Joon Lee wrote:

I don't think there is any user-visible support for registering a
custom colormap.

Now there is: svn r7309. Its use is illustrated via a modification of examples/pylab_examples/custom_cmap.py.

With just a little more work, we could make it so that anything taking a "cmap" kwarg will accept either a Colormap instance or the name of a registered instance (including builtins). Maybe I will do that later today.

Eric

···

However, it seems to me that adding the colormap to
matplotlib.cm.datad distionary is enough.
Note that the value need to be a dictionary of RGB specification, not
the actual colormap instance.

for example,

mycolormap = {'blue': ((0.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002),
          (1.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002)),
'green': ((0.0, 0.5, 0.5), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)),
'red': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0))}

matplotlib.cm.datad["mycolormap"] = mycolormap
rcParams["image.cmap"]="mycolormap"

Having a function (like jet in pylab) would not be also difficult.
Take a look at the definition of "jet" function (for example) in the
pylab.py.

We may be better to have a proper way to register a custom colormap.
I'll try to take a more look later, but any patch will be appreciated.

Regards,

-JJ

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Philipp > Lies<philipp.lies@...982...> wrote:

Does no one have an idea? If not, this is a severe usability bug!

Philipp Lies wrote:

Hi,

I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not
work and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user
defined color map interactively as default color map.

Cheers

Philipp

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Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> I don't think there is any user-visible support for registering a
> custom colormap.

Now there is: svn r7309. Its use is illustrated via a modification of
examples/pylab_examples/custom_cmap.py.

Awesome, works just as I need it! Keep up the good work!
Now I'm one step closer to abandoning matlab :smiley:

Philipp

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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:41:43 -1000 Eric Firing <efiring@...202...> wrote:

With just a little more work, we could make it so that anything taking a
"cmap" kwarg will accept either a Colormap instance or the name of a
registered instance (including builtins). Maybe I will do that later today.

Eric

> However, it seems to me that adding the colormap to
> matplotlib.cm.datad distionary is enough.
> Note that the value need to be a dictionary of RGB specification, not
> the actual colormap instance.
>
> for example,
>
> mycolormap = {'blue': ((0.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002),
> (1.0, 0.40000000000000002, 0.40000000000000002)),
> 'green': ((0.0, 0.5, 0.5), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)),
> 'red': ((0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0, 1.0))}
>
> matplotlib.cm.datad["mycolormap"] = mycolormap
> rcParams["image.cmap"]="mycolormap"
>
> Having a function (like jet in pylab) would not be also difficult.
> Take a look at the definition of "jet" function (for example) in the
> pylab.py.
>
> We may be better to have a proper way to register a custom colormap.
> I'll try to take a more look later, but any patch will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Philipp > > Lies<philipp.lies@...982...> wrote:
>> Does no one have an idea? If not, this is a severe usability bug!
>>
>> Philipp Lies wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just created a hsv-like color map with gray levels only, now I'd like to
>>> use this as default color map. But how? Calling it like hsv() does not
>>> work and I did not find a hint in the documentation how to set a user
>>> defined color map interactively as default color map.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Philipp
>>>
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