"""
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Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib
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Matplotlib has a number of built-in colormaps accessible via
`.matplotlib.cm.get_cmap`.  There are also external libraries like
palettable_ that have many extra colormaps.

.. _palettable: https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/

However, we often want to create or manipulate colormaps in Matplotlib.
This can be done using the class `.ListedColormap` or
`.LinearSegmentedColormap`.
Seen from the outside, both colormap classes map values between 0 and 1 to
a bunch of colors. There are, however, slight differences, some of which are
shown in the following.

Before manually creating or manipulating colormaps, let us first see how we
can obtain colormaps and their colors from existing colormap classes.


Getting colormaps and accessing their values
============================================

First, getting a named colormap, most of which are listed in
:doc:`/tutorials/colors/colormaps`, may be done using
`.matplotlib.cm.get_cmap`, which returns a colormap object.
The second argument gives the size of the list of colors used to define the
colormap, and below we use a modest value of 8 so there are not a lot of
values to look at.
"""

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap, LinearSegmentedColormap

viridis = cm.get_cmap('viridis', 8)

##############################################################################
# The object ``viridis`` is a callable, that when passed a float between
# 0 and 1 returns an RGBA value from the colormap:

print(viridis(0.56))

##############################################################################
# ListedColormap
# --------------
#
# `.ListedColormap` s store their color values in a ``.colors`` attribute.
# The list of colors that comprise the colormap can be directly accessed using
# the ``colors`` property,
# or it can be accessed indirectly by calling  ``viridis`` with an array
# of values matching the length of the colormap.  Note that the returned list
# is in the form of an RGBA Nx4 array, where N is the length of the colormap.

print('viridis.colors', viridis.colors)
print('viridis(range(8))', viridis(range(8)))
print('viridis(np.linspace(0, 1, 8))', viridis(np.linspace(0, 1, 8)))

##############################################################################
# The colormap is a lookup table, so "oversampling" the colormap returns
# nearest-neighbor interpolation (note the repeated colors in the list below)

print('viridis(np.linspace(0, 1, 12))', viridis(np.linspace(0, 1, 12)))

##############################################################################
# LinearSegmentedColormap
# -----------------------
# `.LinearSegmentedColormap` s do not have a ``.colors`` attribute.
# However, one may still call the colormap with an integer array, or with a
# float array between 0 and 1.

copper = cm.get_cmap('copper', 8)

print('copper(range(8))', copper(range(8)))
print('copper(np.linspace(0, 1, 8))', copper(np.linspace(0, 1, 8)))

##############################################################################
# Creating listed colormaps
# =========================
#
# Creating a colormap is essentially the inverse operation of the above where
# we supply a list or array of color specifications to `.ListedColormap` to
# make a new colormap.
#
# Before continuing with the tutorial, let us define a helper function that
# takes one of more colormaps as input, creates some random data and applies
# the colormap(s) to an image plot of that dataset.


def plot_examples(colormaps):
    """
    Helper function to plot data with associated colormap.
    """
    np.random.seed(19680801)
    data = np.random.randn(30, 30)
    n = len(colormaps)
    fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, n, figsize=(n * 2 + 2, 3),
                            constrained_layout=True, squeeze=False)
    for [ax, cmap] in zip(axs.flat, colormaps):
        psm = ax.pcolormesh(data, cmap=cmap, rasterized=True, vmin=-4, vmax=4)
        fig.colorbar(psm, ax=ax)
    plt.show()


##############################################################################
# In the simplest case we might type in a list of color names to create a
# colormap from those.

cmap = ListedColormap(["darkorange", "gold", "lawngreen", "lightseagreen"])
plot_examples([cmap])

##############################################################################
# In fact, that list may contain any valid
# :doc:`matplotlib color specification </tutorials/colors/colors>`.
# Particularly useful for creating custom colormaps are Nx4 numpy arrays.
# Because with the variety of numpy operations that we can do on a such an
# array, carpentry of new colormaps from existing colormaps become quite
# straight forward.
#
# For example, suppose we want to make the first 25 entries of a 256-length
# "viridis" colormap pink for some reason:

viridis = cm.get_cmap('viridis', 256)
newcolors = viridis(np.linspace(0, 1, 256))
pink = np.array([248/256, 24/256, 148/256, 1])
newcolors[:25, :] = pink
newcmp = ListedColormap(newcolors)

plot_examples([viridis, newcmp])

##############################################################################
# We can easily reduce the dynamic range of a colormap; here we choose the
# middle 0.5 of the colormap.  However, we need to interpolate from a larger
# colormap, otherwise the new colormap will have repeated values.

viridis_big = cm.get_cmap('viridis', 512)
newcmp = ListedColormap(viridis_big(np.linspace(0.25, 0.75, 256)))
plot_examples([viridis, newcmp])

##############################################################################
# and we can easily concatenate two colormaps:

top = cm.get_cmap('Oranges_r', 128)
bottom = cm.get_cmap('Blues', 128)

newcolors = np.vstack((top(np.linspace(0, 1, 128)),
                       bottom(np.linspace(0, 1, 128))))
newcmp = ListedColormap(newcolors, name='OrangeBlue')
plot_examples([viridis, newcmp])

##############################################################################
# Of course we need not start from a named colormap, we just need to create
# the Nx4 array to pass to `.ListedColormap`. Here we create a colormap that
# goes from brown (RGB: 90, 40, 40) to white (RGB: 255, 255, 255).

N = 256
vals = np.ones((N, 4))
vals[:, 0] = np.linspace(90/256, 1, N)
vals[:, 1] = np.linspace(40/256, 1, N)
vals[:, 2] = np.linspace(40/256, 1, N)
newcmp = ListedColormap(vals)
plot_examples([viridis, newcmp])

##############################################################################
# Creating linear segmented colormaps
# ===================================
#
# `.LinearSegmentedColormap` class specifies colormaps using anchor points
# between which RGB(A) values are interpolated.
#
# The format to specify these colormaps allows discontinuities at the anchor
# points. Each anchor point is specified as a row in a matrix of the
# form ``[x[i] yleft[i] yright[i]]``, where ``x[i]`` is the anchor, and
# ``yleft[i]`` and ``yright[i]`` are the values of the color on either
# side of the anchor point.
#
# If there are no discontinuities, then ``yleft[i]=yright[i]``:

cdict = {'red':   [[0.0,  0.0, 0.0],
                   [0.5,  1.0, 1.0],
                   [1.0,  1.0, 1.0]],
         'green': [[0.0,  0.0, 0.0],
                   [0.25, 0.0, 0.0],
                   [0.75, 1.0, 1.0],
                   [1.0,  1.0, 1.0]],
         'blue':  [[0.0,  0.0, 0.0],
                   [0.5,  0.0, 0.0],
                   [1.0,  1.0, 1.0]]}


def plot_linearmap(cdict):
    newcmp = LinearSegmentedColormap('testCmap', segmentdata=cdict, N=256)
    rgba = newcmp(np.linspace(0, 1, 256))
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4, 3), constrained_layout=True)
    col = ['r', 'g', 'b']
    for xx in [0.25, 0.5, 0.75]:
        ax.axvline(xx, color='0.7', linestyle='--')
    for i in range(3):
        ax.plot(np.arange(256)/256, rgba[:, i], color=col[i])
    ax.set_xlabel('index')
    ax.set_ylabel('RGB')
    plt.show()

plot_linearmap(cdict)

#############################################################################
# In order to make a discontinuity at an anchor point, the third column is
# different than the second.  The matrix for each of "red", "green", "blue",
# and optionally "alpha" is set up as::
#
#   cdict['red'] = [...
#                   [x[i]      yleft[i]     yright[i]],
#                   [x[i+1]    yleft[i+1]   yright[i+1]],
#                  ...]
#
# and for values passed to the colormap between ``x[i]`` and ``x[i+1]``,
# the interpolation is between ``yright[i]`` and ``yleft[i+1]``.
#
# In the example below there is a discontinuity in red at 0.5.  The
# interpolation between 0 and 0.5 goes from 0.3 to 1, and between 0.5 and 1
# it goes from 0.9 to 1.  Note that red[0, 1], and red[2, 2] are both
# superfluous to the interpolation because red[0, 1] is the value to the
# left of 0, and red[2, 2] is the value to the right of 1.0.

cdict['red'] = [[0.0,  0.0, 0.3],
                [0.5,  1.0, 0.9],
                [1.0,  1.0, 1.0]]
plot_linearmap(cdict)

#############################################################################
# Directly creating a segmented colormap from a list
# --------------------------------------------------
#
# The above described is a very versatile approach, but admittedly a bit
# cumbersome to implement. For some basic cases, the use of
# `.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list` may be easier. This creates a segmented
# colormap with equal spacings from a supplied list of colors.

colors = ["darkorange", "gold", "lawngreen", "lightseagreen"]
cmap1 = LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list("mycmap", colors)

#############################################################################
# If desired, the nodes of the colormap can be given as numbers
# between 0 and 1. E.g. one could have the reddish part take more space in the
# colormap.

nodes = [0.0, 0.4, 0.8, 1.0]
cmap2 = LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list("mycmap", list(zip(nodes, colors)))

plot_examples([cmap1, cmap2])

#############################################################################
#
# ------------
#
# References
# """"""""""
#
# The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
# in this example:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.axes.Axes.pcolormesh
matplotlib.figure.Figure.colorbar
matplotlib.colors
matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap
matplotlib.colors.ListedColormap
matplotlib.cm
matplotlib.cm.get_cmap