Built-in Continuous Color Scales in F#

A reference for the built-in named continuous (sequential, diverging and cyclical) color scales in Plotly.

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#r "nuget: Plotly.NET,  2.0.0-preview.8"
#r "nuget: Plotly.NET.Interactive,  2.0.0-preview.8"

Installed Packages

Plotly.NET, 2.0.0-preview.8
Plotly.NET.Interactive, 2.0.0-preview.8

Loading extensions from Plotly.NET.Interactive.dll

Added Kernel Extension including formatters for Plotly.NET charts.

Built-in and Custom color scales¶

The following built-in continuous color scales are available. Through Custom Colorscale, you can define custom colors

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open Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection
open Plotly.NET

let builtinColorScales = FSharpType.GetUnionCases typeof<StyleParam.Colorscale>

for case in builtinColorScales do printfn "%s" case.Name

Custom
RdBu
Earth
Blackbody
YIOrRd
YIGnBu
Bluered
Portland
Electric
Jet
Hot
Greys
Greens
Picnic
Rainbow
Viridis
Cividis

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open Plotly.NET 

let matrix =
    [[1.;1.5;0.7;2.7];
    [2.;0.5;1.2;1.4];
    [0.1;2.6;2.4;3.0];]

let rownames = ["p3";"p2";"p1"]
let colnames = ["Tp0";"Tp30";"Tp60";"Tp160"]

let colorscaleValue = 
    StyleParam.Colorscale.Custom [(0.0,"#3D9970");(1.0,"#001f3f")] //StyleParam.Colorscale.Blackbody or StyleParam.Colorscale.Bluered etc

Chart.Heatmap(
    data=matrix,ColNames=colnames,RowNames=rownames,
    Colorscale=colorscaleValue,
    Showscale=true
)
|> Chart.withSize(700.,500.)
|> Chart.withMarginSize(Left=200.)

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