# Thermograph color map

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/thermograph-color-map/8160
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/thermograph-color-map/8160 "2022-03-28T23:05:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![hamid\_badi](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/hamid_badi/32/895_2.png) [@hamid\_badi](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/hamid_badi)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/thermograph-color-map/8160/1 "2022-03-28T23:05:00Z")

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Hi,

I can’t find a well know thermography colormap (as below) neither in paraview nor in vtk xml file. Does anybody already find/implemented it ?  
 ![thermography-colormap](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/914d5b37f326a9092a40234fe63243774ba9f8b6.jpeg)

Thanks

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/thermograph-color-map/8160/2 "2022-03-29T08:17:11Z")

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Looks like Inferno (matplotlib) which is present in ParaView.

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### Author: ![amaclean](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/amaclean/32/224_2.png) [@amaclean](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/amaclean)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/thermograph-color-map/8160/3 "2022-03-29T21:45:45Z")

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Also look at: [Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization](https://www.kennethmoreland.com/color-maps/)

The implementation of these is here: [CurvaturesAdjustEdges](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Cxx/PolyData/CurvaturesAdjustEdges/), in particular `GetDivergingLut()` and `GetDivergingLut1()`.

These two functions allow you to easily add whatever colormaps you want.