plottools.cs.colorscheme.Colorscheme

class plottools.cs.colorscheme.Colorscheme(colors, longnames=None, cycle=None, base=None)

A colorscheme class useful for plotting

Methods

items()
keys()
next()	get the next color in the cycle
plot([ax])	plots the current colorscheme main colors
reset_index()	resets the current color index to 0
set_as_default()	sets the colorscheme as the default color cycle in matplotlib figures
to_svg(filename)	converts the colorscheme to an svg file with block of colors ordered
values()

__init__(colors, longnames=None, cycle=None, base=None)

defines a colorscheme object useful for plotting

Parameters:

colors : dict

Dictionary of named colors as RGB (0-1) tupples

longnames : dict, optional

Dictionary of long names of the colors specified in colors

cycle : list, optional

List with the cycle order

Examples

>>> cs = Colorscheme({'r':(1.,0.,0.),'g':(0.,1.,0.),'b':(0.,0.,1.)},['b','g','r'])
>>> print( cs[0] )
>>> 
>>> print( cs.next() )
>>> print( cs.next() )
>>> 
>>> cs.reset_index()
>>> print( cs.next() )

Methods

__init__(colors[, longnames, cycle, base])	defines a colorscheme object useful for plotting
items()
keys()
next()	get the next color in the cycle
plot([ax])	plots the current colorscheme main colors
reset_index()	resets the current color index to 0
set_as_default()	sets the colorscheme as the default color cycle in matplotlib figures
to_svg(filename)	converts the colorscheme to an svg file with block of colors ordered
values()