IgorColorTables

Expanding the use of color tables in IGOR Pro.

Igor ships with:

• a series of 61 in-built Color Tables: a list can be generated using CTabList()
• a further 243 additional Color Tables in Igor Pro 9 Folder/Color Tables/: full details are in Color Table Waves.ihf

In this repo, there is an Igor port of the ImageJ Update Site NeuroCyto-LUTs created and maintained by Christophe Leterrier which makes a further ~400 Color Tables available.

An abbreviated list of color tables:

- EPFL - ametrine, isolum and morgenstemning
- LANL - from Data Science at Scale
- MatplotLib - approximations from scipy
- Moreland - Moreland's maps including *smoothcoolwarm256*
- SciColMaps - Crameri's maps including *batlow*
- NeuroCyto-LUTs - useful for images but also includes Kovesi color maps

Installation

Copy the NeuroCytoLUTs folder in ibwfiles to your Igor Pro 9 User Files/User Color Tables directory. Create the User Color Tables directory if it does not exist.

Copy the ColorTableProcs.ipf to Igor Pro 9 User Files/User Procedures and run, or load into an existing experiment.

Using ColorTableProcs

Additional color tables can be made available in your experiment using Colors > More Color Tables

Color Tables are loaded into root:Packages:ColorTables:subfolder where the subfolder is the family of color tables.

To display the Color Tables that have been loaded, chose Colors > Display Color Tables

Examples

One page of examples of the additional Igor Color Tables as linear color scales

One page of examples of the NeuroCyto-LUTs Color Tables as linear color scales

One page of examples of the additional Igor Color Tables as 9 x 9 latin squares

One page of examples of the NeuroCyto-LUTs Color Tables as 9 x 9 latin squares

Notes

To load even more LUTs as .lut .csv .txt or .tsv use Colors > Load Color Tables

A menu command allows easy save of these files following conversion, as .ibw files.

Maintenance: So, the cycle required to port the ImageJ LUTs to Igor is:

1. Generate readable files from ImageJ/Fiji, using the script lut2tsv.ijm which will export all luts from the current ImageJ/Fiji installation as tab-separated values.
2. Load these *.lut files into Igor using Colors > Load Color Tables > Load LUTs into Igor
3. Now save these as *.ibw directly in the repo folder IgorColorTables/ibwFiles/NeuroCytoLUTs and commit.

After loading these additional LUTs and enabling the additional Igor Color Tables, there are some duplications

  C3_linear_kry_0_97_c73_n256  matches  CET_L4
  CET_CBL1  matches  C3_linear_protanopic_deuteranopic_kbjyw_5_95_c25_n256
  C3_cyclic_tritanopic_wrwc_70_100_c20_n256  matches  CET_CBTC2
  CET_L1  matches  C3_linear_grey_0_100_c0_n256
  C3_rainbow_bgyrm_35_85_c69_n256  matches  CET_R1
  CET_CBL2  matches  C3_linear_protanopic_deuteranopic_kbw_5_98_c40_n256
  C3_cyclic_mygbm_30_95_c78_n256_s25  matches  CET_C2s
  JDM_Circus_Ink_Black  matches  JDM_Grays_g_1_00_inverted
  CET_CBTD1  matches  C3_diverging_tritanopic_cwr_75_98_c20_n256
  C3_diverging_gwr_55_95_c38_n256  matches  CET_D3
  CET_L5  matches  C3_linear_kgy_5_95_c69_n256
  WRA_Green_Fire_Blue  matches  Green_Fire_Blue
  C3_isoluminant_cgo_80_c38_n256  matches  CET_I2
  CET_L13  matches  C3_linear_ternary_red_0_50_c52_n256
  CET_D1  matches  C3_diverging_bwr_40_95_c42_n256
  C3_diverging_linear_bjy_30_90_c45_n256  matches  CET_D7
  CET_L14  matches  C3_linear_ternary_green_0_46_c42_n256
  CET_L12  matches  C3_linear_blue_95_50_c20_n256
  C3_isoluminant_cgo_70_c39_n256  matches  CET_I1
  C3_diverging_bky_60_10_c30_n256  matches  CET_D6
  CET_R2  matches  C3_rainbow_bgyr_35_85_c72_n256
  C3_cyclic_grey_15_85_c0_n256  matches  CET_C5
  C3_diverging_bwr_20_95_c54_n256  matches  CET_D1A
  CET_D9  matches  C3_diverging_bwr_55_98_c37_n256
  CET_L15  matches  C3_linear_ternary_blue_0_44_c57_n256
  CET_I3  matches  C3_isoluminant_cm_70_c39_n256
  CET_L9  matches  C3_linear_bgyw_20_98_c66_n256
  C3_linear_bmy_10_95_c71_n256  matches  CET_L8
  CET_C5s  matches  C3_cyclic_grey_15_85_c0_n256_s25
  C3_linear_wyor_100_45_c55_n256  matches  CET_L18
  C3_diverging_isoluminant_cjo_70_c25_n256  matches  CET_D11
  C3_diverging_cwm_80_100_c22_n256  matches  CET_D10
  CET_L11  matches  C3_linear_gow_65_90_c35_n256
  C3_cyclic_mygbm_30_95_c78_n256  matches  CET_C2
  CET_CBTL2  matches  C3_linear_tritanopic_krjcw_5_95_c24_n256
  C3_linear_wcmr_100_45_c42_n256  matches  CET_L19
  C3_diverging_isoluminant_cjm_75_c23_n256  matches  CET_D12
  C3_diverging_bwg_20_95_c41_n256  matches  CET_D13
  CET_L7  matches  C3_linear_bmw_5_95_c86_n256
  CET_L16  matches  C3_linear_kbgyw_5_98_c62_n256