[matplotlib-devel] Colormap that prints nicely in black and white

[Damon M. <D.M...@wa...>]

Hi all,

Don't know if anybody else has found a colormap that is aesthetically pleasing and prints well in black and white. I found one after a lot of Googling. Perhaps useful for plotting figures in journals that charge a lot for colour figures. I got the colormap from: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/74/22101/01028735.pdf%3Farnumber%3D1028735

I decided to code it up (see attached text file for the cdict). If anybody finds it useful, maybe it could go into the default colormaps that ship with matplotlib.