This is an addon to quickly and efficiently load colormaps into the colorramp node in Blender
Simply install the .zip from this repository in Blender. This addon uses matplotlib which needs to be installed to the blender python environment. After activating the addon you will be notified if you need to install matplotlib.
On windows there can be permission errors that prevent you from writing to the site-packages folder. If that happens you need to manaully install matplotlib there
Find it in the tools section of node menus
After install, everything will be blank. Click the search button to scan the librarys folder. It will rescan automatically each time you start blender
Currently there are six built-in color libraries: Matplotlib, MetBrewer, Cmocean, scientific, carbonplan, and tableau
You can update ColorRamp nodes when one is selected
Gamma-correction ensures that colors in Blender are perceived the same way as in matplotlib
You can add additional and custom libraries by creating folders in the colormaps folder (blender_colormaps/assets/colormaps) in the install folder of the addon.
Colormaps are .rgb format.
