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Twilight - color table uses colors associated with twilight (the illumination of the Earth’s lower atmosphere when the Sun is not directly visible), spanning colors from pink through white to blue.

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Cividis - color table uses yellow and blue colors in a color table that is suited for normal vision, a deuteranomaly, or red-green colorblindness. It was created by Jamie Nuñez, Ryan Renslow, and Chris Anderton at the Biological Sciences Division of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (located in Richland, Washington state, United States).

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Cyclic and CyclicClassic - color tables are useful for displaying periodic functions because they have a sharp color gradient — it varies the hue component of the hue-saturation-value (HSV) color model, keeping the saturation value constant (equal to 1). The colors begin with red, then pass through yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, and finally return to red.

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Dipole - color table has been developed for plots where the majority of the solution is close to zero (or centered around some meaningful reference point) and where, in some places, positive and negative excitations occur. Typical cases are the electric potential distribution around positively and negatively charged objects with the field relaxing to zero at infinity and the pressure distribution of an acoustic wave propagating in a large open space. For those cases, the scale tends to white in areas of relative inactivity, allowing for a good contrast with titles, legends, dataset edges, and other plot elements. This reasoning is similar to the one used for the Prism color scale. The main difference is that Dipole is symmetric (or “diverging”), making it suitable for positive and negative scalar fields, whereas Prism is more suitable for vector field norms (which are positive only).

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DipoleDark - similar but uses slightly darker colors.

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Disco and DiscoClassic - color tables span from red through magenta and cyan to blue. DiscoDark and DiscoLight are similar but use darker and lighter colors, respectively.

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Gaia - color table spans colors that make it suitable for visualizing plots related to topography and bathymetry.

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GaiaLight - similar but use lighter colors.

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GrayBody - color table is based on the Planckian locus for blackbody radiation. It is useful within the context of metal processing, for example.

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GrayBodyLight - is similar but use lighter colors.

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GrayScale - color table uses the linear gray scale from black to white — the easiest palette to understand and order.

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GrayPrint - color table varies linearly from dark gray (RGB: 0.95, 0.95, 0.95) to light gray (RGB: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05). Choose this color table to overcome two difficulties that the GrayScale color table has when used for printing on paper — it gives the impression of being dominated by dark colors, and white is indistinguishable from the background.

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Inferno, Magma, and Plasma - color tables use a general bluish to reddish to yellowish color sequence, which is relatively friendly to common forms of color vision deficiencies. They are designed so that they are analytically perceptually uniform, both in regular form and when converted to black-and-white images. They were created by Stéfan van der Walt and Nathaniel Smith.

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Prism - slightly similar to the Rainbow color table but includes a white tip and is brighter. It has been developed for plots where the majority of the solution is close to zero (typically at the outer perimeter of the modeling domain) and where, in some places, singularities or “hot spots” occur. This is especially true for electric and magnetic field norms in electromagnetic models, but may also occur for stress and strain norms in structural mechanics models, for example. For those cases, the scale tends to white in areas of relative inactivity, allowing for a good contrast with titles, legends, dataset edges, and other plot elements. This is the default color table for plots when using structural mechanics physics interfaces.

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PrismDark - similar but uses slightly darker colors. It can be used, in combination with Prism, to add arrows or streamlines on top of a plane, for instance. Close to the hot spots the contrast between the two color scales increases, and in the wake regions the contrast will fade.

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Rainbow - the default for most plots that support color tables. The color ordering corresponds to the wavelengths of the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It starts at the small-wavelength end with dark blue. The colors range through shades of blue, cyan, green, yellow, and red. The disadvantage of this color table is that people with color vision deficiencies (affecting up to 10% of technical audiences) cannot see distinctions between reds and greens.

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RainbowClassic - the rainbow color table used in versions of COMSOL Multiphysics earlier than version 6.0. Compared to RainbowClassic, the current Rainbow color table is less saturated, more uniform, more smooth, and more balanced.

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RainbowDark and RainbowLight - similar to Rainbow but use darker and lighter colors, respectively.

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Spectrum and SpectrumClassic are similar to the Rainbow color tables but include violet at the small-wavelength end of the visible spectrum. They also include richer shades of green to more closely replicate the human perception of visible light.

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SpectrumLight - similar but use lighter colors. You can use them with the Ray Optics Module, for example, to accurately visualize polychromatic light.

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Thermal and ThermalClassic - differ in that the Thermal color table uses equal distances from dark red to orange, yellow, and white, which means that the region with the lowest values is red instead of black as in the ThermalClassic color table. The colors correspond to the colors iron takes as it heats up.

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ThermalLight and ThermalLightClassic - similar but use lighter colors.

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ThermalDark - similar but uses darker colors.

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ThermalWave - designed for wave phenomena with a thermal character. It is calibrated to have a 100% symmetric luminance.

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ThermalWaveDark - similar to ThermalWave but with slightly darker colors.

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Traffic and TrafficClassic - color tables span from green through yellow to red.

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TrafficLight and TrafficLightClassic - similar but use lighter colors.

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Viridis - color table uses a general bluish to greenish to yellowish color sequence, which is relatively friendly to common forms of color vision deficiencies. It is designed so that it is analytically perceptually uniform, both in regular form and when converted to a black-and-white image. It was created by Stéfan van der Walt and Nathaniel Smith.

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Wave and WaveClassic - color tables are useful for data that naturally has positive and negative attributes in addition to a magnitude. As an example of a double-ended color scheme, it ranges linearly from blue to light gray, and then linearly from white to red. When the range of the visualized quantity is symmetric around zero, the color red or blue indicates whether the value is positive or negative, and the saturation indicates the magnitude.

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WaveLight and WaveLightClassic - similar and range linearly from a lighter blue to a lighter red.