display default MPL colormaps

compare_MPL_cmaps.py

from pylab import *

val=range(4)
cmaps = [('Sequential',     ['Blues', 'BuGn', 'BuPu',
                             'GnBu', 'Greens', 'Greys', 'Oranges', 'OrRd',
                             'PuBu', 'PuBuGn', 'PuRd', 'Purples', 'RdPu',
                             'Reds', 'YlGn', 'YlGnBu', 'YlOrBr', 'YlOrRd']),
         ('Sequential (2)', ['afmhot', 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper',
                             'gist_heat', 'gray', 'hot', 'pink',
                             'spring', 'summer', 'winter']),
         ('Diverging',      ['BrBG', 'bwr', 'coolwarm', 'PiYG', 'PRGn', 'PuOr',
                             'RdBu', 'RdGy', 'RdYlBu', 'RdYlGn', 'Spectral',
                             'seismic']),
         ('Qualitative',    ['Accent', 'Dark2', 'Paired', 'Pastel1',
                             'Pastel2', 'Set1', 'Set2', 'Set3']),
         ('Miscellaneous',  ['gist_earth', 'terrain', 'ocean', 'gist_stern',
                             'brg', 'CMRmap', 'cubehelix',
                             'gnuplot', 'gnuplot2', 'gist_ncar',
                             'nipy_spectral', 'jet', 'rainbow',
                             'gist_rainbow', 'hsv', 'flag', 'prism'])]
ioff()
rcParams['text.color'] = 'm'
fig = figure(facecolor='lightgray')
for ncol, (category, _cmaps) in enumerate(cmaps):
	for nrow, _cmap in enumerate(_cmaps):
		subplot(18,5,nrow*5+ncol+1)
		imshow(np.vstack([val,val]), interpolation='none', cmap=_cmap)
		axis('off')
		title(_cmap)
# tight_layout()
show()