NOTE: This is a fork of the original viscm. Despite being a very great tool for creating proper scientific colormaps (which I highly thank the creators for), the original viscm is not particularly user-friendly and has some issues that sometimes makes it unreliable. Because of this, I am updating the package to be more user-friendly and support more different types of colormaps (including proper support of diverging colormaps and cyclic colormaps). All colormaps that are in my `CMasher`_ package were made with this fork of viscm. After I am done with all of my modifications and additions, I hope to merge this fork back into the original, such that everyone can use this great piece of software with ease.

viscm

This is a little tool for analyzing colormaps and creating new colormaps.

Try:

$ pip install viscm
$ viscm view jet
$ viscm edit

There is some information available about how to interpret the resulting visualizations and use the editor tool on this website.

Downloads:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/viscm/

Code and bug tracker:

https://github.com/matplotlib/viscm

Contact:

Nathaniel J. Smith <njs@pobox.com> and Stéfan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu>

Dependencies:

• Python 3.5+
• colorspacious
• Matplotlib
• NumPy
• CMasher (for providing several utility functions regarding colormaps)
• GuiPy (for providing many PyQt5 utility widgets that make viscm much more responsive)

License:

MIT, see LICENSE.txt for details.