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Examples of Dave Green's ‘cubehelix’ colour scheme

Here are various colour wedges that illustrate some of the colour schemes possible with ‘cubehelix’ (together with files for use in ds9 or kvis).

the ‘default’ scheme:
ds9 or kvis
with different start colours:
ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis
with different hue values:
ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis
with different rotations:
ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis
rotating the other way around:
ds9 or kvis
no colour rotation:
ds9 or kvis
different gammas:
ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

ds9 or kvis

go to: cubehelix page