Color tables

Several pre-defined colormaps are available in the NCAR Graphics package. You can change the colormap of your workstation by setting the wkColorMap resource to one of the following strings.

• "default" - This is the default colormap with 32 entries.
• "cyclic" - This colormap has 8 entries containing the primary colors and their complements.
• "gscyclic" - This is a grayscale version of the cyclic colormap with 8 entries.
• "gsltod" - This colormap contains 33 grayscale entries that range from light to dark.
• "gsdtol" - This colormap contains 33 grayscale entries that range from dark to light.
• "uniform" (2nd frame) - The uniform colormap contains 175 entries that cycle through 5 levels of red, 7 levels of green, and 5 levels of blue.
• "temp1" - The temp1 colormap contains 63 entries that are arranged in a continuous color table with "cool" colors at the bottom and "warm" colors at the top. The colors range from white to blue to green to red.
• "psgcap" (2nd frame)- This colormap contains 231 entries. It is based on the colormap that is used in the color PostScript graphcap for the NCAR Graphics ctrans utility.
• "example" - The example colormap contains 115 entries with hues of yellow, red, blue, and green.

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