How to create a custom color spectrum from an array...?

I have an array that is something like this: x = [1000,1200,1300,1250,1340,1020,...]

It goes to about 600 "columns."

Now if I want to take those numbers and turn them into a color spectrum, how do I go about doing that...? I have considered doing it manually and actually write out an if/else statement where it goes through each element and finds out what "bin" that it corresponds to and then assign a color.

Then when putting it together, it will create a "color spectrum". But in my case I just want a visual image of the array which looks like a color spectrum.

I was hoping to avoid that if possible. So is there a shortcut to do what I need without having to brute force it...?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[bym]

you can customize a colormap to your data, for example:

jet(600);

would produce the color map 'jet' to map your array to a unique color

doc colormap

don't know if this is what you are looking for