Build custom colormaps
This function can be used to build your own custom colormaps. Imagine if you want to display rainfall distribution map. You want a colormap which ideally brings rainfall in mind, which is not achieved by colormaps such as winter, cool or jet and such. A gradient of white to blue will do the
task, but you might also use a more complex gradient (such as white+blue+red or colors='wbr'). This function can be use to build any colormap using main colors rgbcmyk. In image processing, w (white) can be used as the first color so that in the output, the background (usually with 0 values) appears white. In the example of rainfall map, 'wb' will produce a rainfall density map where the background (if its DN values are 0) will appear as white.
Inputs:
colors: string (char) of color codes, any sequence of rgbcmywk
representing different colors (such as 'b' for blue) is acceptable. If a
gradient of white to blue is needed, colors would be 'wb'; a rainbow of
white+blue+red+green would be 'wbrg'.
Example:
[cmap]=buildcmap('wygbr');
%try the output cmap:
im=imread('cameraman.tif');
imshow(im), colorbar
colormap(cmap) %will use the output colormap
Cite As
M Sohrabinia (2024). Build custom colormaps (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/40318-build-custom-colormaps), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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- MATLAB > Graphics > Formatting and Annotation > Colormaps > Green >
- MATLAB > Graphics > Formatting and Annotation > Colormaps > Blue >
- MATLAB > Graphics > Images > Modify Image Colors >
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Inspired: rgbmap color maps
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