Create Colors Similar to the Google Turbo Scheme

This uses the coefficients published (with Apache license) by google, as described by Mikhailo (2019).

Usage

oceColorsTurbo(n)

Arguments

n

number of colors to create.

References

Mikhailo, Anton. “Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization.” Google AI (blog), August 20, 2019. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.html

The following references provide information on choosing colour schemes, that are suitable for viewers who have colour deficiencies.

Light, Adam, and Patrick J. Bartlein. "The End of the Rainbow? Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 85, no. 40 (2004): 385. DOI: 10.1029/2004EO400002

Stephenson, David B. "Comment on 'Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics', by A Light and P.J. Bartlein." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 86, no. 20 (2005): 196. DOI: 10.1029/2005EO200005

Light, Adam, and Patrick J. Bartlein. "Reply to 'Comment on Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics,' by A. Light and P.J. Bartlein'." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 86, no. 20 (2005): 196–196. DOI: 10.1029/2005EO200006

See also

Other things related to colors: colormap(), colormapGMT(), oceColors9B(), oceColorsCDOM(), oceColorsChlorophyll(), oceColorsClosure(), oceColorsDensity(), oceColorsFreesurface(), oceColorsGebco(), oceColorsJet(), oceColorsOxygen(), oceColorsPAR(), oceColorsPalette(), oceColorsPhase(), oceColorsSalinity(), oceColorsTemperature(), oceColorsTurbidity(), oceColorsTwo(), oceColorsVelocity(), oceColorsViridis(), oceColorsVorticity(), ocecolors

Author

Dan Kelley

Examples

library(oce)
imagep(volcano,
    col = oceColorsTurbo(128),
    zlab = "oceColorsTurbo"
)