Light Bartlein Color Maps

Generates one of four colormaps using schemes proposed in technical literature

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This submission was inspired by comments from Ned Gulley in a recent Blog by Doug Hull. Ned cited an EOS article by A. Light and P.J. Bartlein who proposed some color maps designed for colorblind viewers. This function implements four of the proposed color maps using look-up tables (aka interpolation). A link to the article is included in the M-file.

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Robert Bemis (2026). Light Bartlein Color Maps (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17555-light-bartlein-color-maps), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: Perceptually improved colormaps

General Information

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  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.1.0.1

Updated license

1.1.0.0

copyright

1.0.0.0

Relaxed nargout contstraint (from 1 to 0-1) so function can return colormap values as ANS consistent with MATLAB's other colormaps. Thanks to John D'Errico - nice catch.