colourmap 0.1.1

Python package colourmap generates an N unique colors from the specified input colormap.

colourmap

• Python package colourmap generates an N unique colors from the specified input colormap.

Contents

• Installation
• Requirements
• Quick Start
• Contribute
• Citation
• Maintainers
• License

Installation

• Install colourmap from PyPI (recommended). colourmap is compatible with Python 3.6+ and runs on Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
• It is distributed under the MIT license.

Requirements

# This can be done manually but is also done automatically when pip installing colourmap.
pip install -r requirements

Quick Start

pip install colourmap

• Alternatively, install colourmap from the GitHub source:

git clone https://github.com/erdogant/colourmap.git
cd colourmap
python setup.py install

Import colourmap package

import colourmap as colourmap

Example:

N=10
# Create N colors
getcolors=colourmap.generate(N)

# With different cmap
getcolors=colourmap.generate(N, cmap='Set2')

# Create color for label
y=[1,1,2,2,3,1,2,3]
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y)
# With different cmap
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y, cmap='Set2')
# With different method
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y, cmap='Set2', method='seaborn')

# String as input labels
y=['1','1','2','2','3','1','2','3']
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y)
# With different cmap
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y, cmap='Set2')
# With different method
label_colors, colordict=colourmap.fromlist(y, cmap='Set2', method='seaborn')

Citation

Please cite colourmap in your publications if this is useful for your research. Here is an example BibTeX entry:

@misc{erdogant2019colourmap,
  title={colourmap},
  author={Erdogan Taskesen},
  year={2019},
  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/erdogant/colourmap}},
}

Maintainers

• Erdogan Taskesen, github: erdogant

Contribute

• Contributions are welcome.

Licence

See LICENSE for details.

Donation

• This package is created and maintained in my free time. If this package is usefull, you can show your gratitude :) Thanks!