# Waterlily

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmasher.waterlily
Source type: Colormap
Type: diverging
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/waterlily/waterlily_norm.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, diverging
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Pink-green waterlily diverging.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.195 → 0.185 (range 0.811, min 0.185, max 0.996); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.996
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.170, mean 0.088
- Hue: 305.1° → 60.6° (span 246.4°), path folded; quadrants: magenta, violet, blue, azure, cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 202.7, mean/step 0.795, max step 1.234, smoothness 0.870, speed 0.795

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 173.7; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 166.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 205.3; preserves order: yes

## Related

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