Waterlily

Summary

Waterlily is a diverging colormap from cmasher. Two arms meet at a pivot of lightness 1.00, hue sweeps 246° from magenta to yellow, and order holds under all three colorblind simulations.

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
• Pivot: t 0.498, lightness 0.996, hue jump 48.0°, smoothness 0.506
• 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: cmasher
• Source: Ellert van der Velden — CMasher (10.21105/joss.02004)
• Similar diverging maps: Fusion, Guppy, Holly, Iceburn, Pride, Prinsenvlag, Redshift, Seaweed
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