R: Create colors similar to the matlab Viridis scheme

oceColorsViridis {oce} | R Documentation

## Create colors similar to the matlab Viridis scheme

### Description

This is patterned on a matlab/python scheme [1] that blends from yellow to blue in a way that is designed to reproduce well in black-and-white, and to be interpretable by those with certain forms of color blindness [3-4].

### Usage

    oceColorsViridis(n)

### Arguments

`n` | number of colors to create.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### References

[1] A blog item on the Viridis (and related) matplotlib color scales is at http://bids.github.io/colormap/.

[2] Light, A., and P. J. Bartlein, 2004. The End of the Rainbow? Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(40), doi:10.1029/2004EO400002.

[3] Martin Jakobsson, Ron Macnab, and Members of the Editorial Board, IBCAO. Selective comparisons of GEBCO (1979) and IBCAO (2000) maps. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/ibcao_gebco_comp.html.

[4] Stephenson, David B., 2005. Comment on “Color schemes for improved data graphics,” by A. Light and P. J. Bartlein. Eos Trans. AGU, 86(20).

### See Also

Other things related to colors: `colormap`, `oceColors9B`, `oceColorsCDOM`, `oceColorsChlorophyll`, `oceColorsClosure`, `oceColorsDensity`, `oceColorsFreesurface`, `oceColorsGebco`, `oceColorsJet`, `oceColorsOxygen`, `oceColorsPAR`, `oceColorsPalette`, `oceColorsPhase`, `oceColorsSalinity`, `oceColorsTemperature`, `oceColorsTurbidity`, `oceColorsTwo`, `oceColorsVelocity`, `oceColorsVorticity`, `ocecolors`

### Examples

    library(oce)
    imagep(volcano, col=oceColorsViridis(128),
           zlab="oceColorsViridis")

[Package oce version 1.0-1 Index]