GIBS ColorMaps

GIBS is a powerful imagery service maintained by NASA, often used in tiling applications. This package leverages the wide variety of color maps GIBS has to offer and presents a Python-based implementation via matplotlib. For more information regarding GIBS and their services, check out their GitHub repo and their landing site.

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Installation

To install the latest version of cmgibs to your own environment:

$ cd <target_dir>

Make sure your environment is activated; on Linux,

$ source <env_name>/bin/activate
$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/asascience-open/cmgibs.git#egg=cmgibs

Usage

To use the color maps available in cmgibs, just import the module:

import cmgibs
import matplotlib.cm

for name, cmap in cmgibs.cmap_d.items():
    matplotlib.cm.register_cmap(name=name, cmap=cmap)

Development

Pull requests are welcome! If you'd like to contribute, please fork.

A note on tests: unit tests are implemented to make sure we don't unintentionally break the code. To make sure you're testing your new code and not just the existing package:

First make sure you're in the correct directory with your environment activated and use the pip install -e . (-e for 'editable') to install your local project. This way, your unit tests will be referencing your code and not the stable package.

(env) $ cd ~/cmgibs
(env) $ pip install -e .

You can run the unit tests with any testing framework of your choice; I use pytest.

$ pytest [-v]