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INTRODUCTION TO MATPLOTLIB

Choosing and Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib

A guide to creating and customizing your own colormaps from a list of colors

Almost all the programmers who work with Python programming language know Matplotlib. It is one of the most used libraries. It is a multi-platform library that can play with many operating systems and was built in 2002 by John Hunter.

Nowadays, people start to develop new packages with more simple and more modern styles than in Matplotlib, like Seaborn, Plotly, and even Pandas uses Matplotlib’s API wrappers. But, I think Matplotlib still in many programmer’s hearts.

If you need to learn the introductory in using Matplotlib, you can check this link out.

Data Visualization with Matplotlib — For Absolute Beginner Part I

Colormaps in Matplotlib

In visualizing the 3D plot, we need colormaps to differ and make some intuitions in 3D parameters. Scientifically, the human brain perceives various intuition based on the different colors they see.