An easy way to use the beautiful color schemes at ColorBrewer in Abaqus to plot contour.
All ColorBrewer color schemes that include at least 8 colors are included. Each color scheme provides more than 8 discrete color palette.
Sequential color schemes are good for emphasizing one extreme of ordered data: data collected at different time points, maps of population densities, etc. These color schemes are in the sequential directory. Specifically, there are 6 single hue schemes (Greys, Purples, Blues, Greens, Oranges, Reds) and 12 multihue schemes (BuGn, BuPu, GnBu, OrRd, PuBu, BuGn, PuRd, RdPu, YlGn, YlGnBu, YlOrBr, YlOrRd). Note that color #1 is very difficult to see on a white background.
Diverging color schemes are good for emphasizing both extremes of ordered data: attributes of those with positive/neutral/negative opinions on an issue, maps of temperature deviation from a mean, etc. These color schemes are in the diverging directory. Specifically, there are 6 schemes centered about white (BrBG, PiYG, PuGn, PuOr, RdGy, RdBu) and 3 centered about yellow (RdYlGn, RdYlBu, Spectral), and the reversed schemes are also included. Note that Spectral is the most rainbow-like of the ColorBrewer schemes, although the central yellows are deemphasized compared to other rainbow or jet color schemes.
Choose your desired color scheme by perusing ColorBrewer.
To use any color scheme, just run the python script in Abaqus/CAE. Then in contour plot option the new imported scheme could be found.
colorbrewer-colormaps-4-abaqus is forked from gnuplot-colorbrewer, which is written and maintained by Anna Schneider. All the scripts are rewritten with python by Xiaojun GU.
ColorBrewer is a project of Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State University.
colorbrewer-colormaps-4-abaqus is released under the Apache License 2.0, as is ColorBrewer.
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