# Nuclear

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmasher.nuclear
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: cmasher
Attribution: Ellert van der Velden — CMasher (10.21105/joss.02004)
License: BSD-3
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1313e/CMasher/master/src/cmasher/colormaps/nuclear/nuclear_norm.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, sequential
Stops: 256

## Summary

Nuclear is a sequential colormap from the cmasher collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

Yellow-green-cyan sequential.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.000 → 0.895 (range 0.895, min 0.000, max 0.895); monotonic; midpoint 0.502
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.247, mean 0.119
- Hue: 0.0° → 132.9° (span 146.4°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: green
- Endpoint temperature: null → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 85.3, mean/step 0.335, max step 0.528, smoothness 0.792, speed 0.335

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 80.7; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 76.9; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 78.9; preserves order: yes

## Related

- Family: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/families/cmasher
- All colormaps: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps