colorGray

Creates full spectrum, blue-green-orange-salmon, colormap that maps to linear grayscale.
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Updated 17 Nov 2006

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Creates a broad range color map that looks good in color as well as when reduced to grayscale for low cost publication.

Finished colormap encodes small values with a bluish color, intermediate values in green to orange, and large values with a redish/salmon color. The greyscale is linear.

RGBcolormap=colorGray(numberOfLevels,makeDebugPlot);

Cite As

Alexandre Tumlinson (2024). colorGray (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12804-colorgray), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2006a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux

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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

input 'numberOfLevels' is now optional. Optimized for speed and readability by vectorizing code. Added the debug plotting options.

Thx to PederAxensten for suggestions and significant code snippet.