https://github.com/chadagreene/cmocean

Perceptually uniform cmocean colormaps in MATLAB.
https://github.com/chadagreene/cmocean

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Perceptually uniform cmocean colormaps in MATLAB.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chadagreene/cmocean
• Owner: chadagreene
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-04-16T20:22:25.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-07T18:01:30.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-24T00:49:40.938Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: cmocean, color-ramp, colormap, colormaps, colourmap, matlab
• Language: MATLAB
• Homepage:
• Size: 815 KB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Perceptually uniform cmocean colormaps in MATLAB.

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![](cmocean.png)

# About cmocean 

[Click here](https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/) or a detailed description of cmocean and plenty of examples of the colormaps in action.  

# Function documentation 

[Click here](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/57773) for online documentation that shows how to use the `cmocean` function. You'll find the documentation under the Examples tab. 

To access documentation from within Matlab, type 

    showdemo cmocean_documentation

    

into your command window.

# Citing cmocean 

If cmocean is useful for you, please consider citing our paper: 

Thyng, K.M., C.A. Greene, R.D. Hetland, H.M. Zimmerle, and S.F. DiMarco. 2016. True colors of oceanography: Guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selection. Oceanography 29(3):9–13. [https://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.66](https://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.66)