How to use viridis in matplotlib 1.4

Question

I want to use the colormap \"viridis\" (http://bids.github.io/colormap/), and I won\'t be updating to the development version 1.5 quite yet. Thus, I have downloaded c

Answer 1

What I did is to just copy the

_viridis_data = [[0.267004, 0.004874, 0.329415],
                 [0.268510, 0.009605, 0.335427],
                 [0.269944, 0.014625, 0.341379],
                 :
                 [0.983868, 0.904867, 0.136897],
                 [0.993248, 0.906157, 0.143936]]

from https://github.com/BIDS/colormap/blob/master/colormaps.py

and add:

from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap

viridis = ListedColormap(_viridis_data, name='viridis')

plt.register_cmap(name='viridis', cmap=viridis)
plt.set_cmap(viridis)