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Add Abaqus' default rainbow colormap

See the discussion here. I hadn't considered adding this to ParaView source, but from the discussion figured I might as well get things started.

Note that I'm not sure what the complete syntax is for colormaps, but if possible these are a few other default settings for the colormap in Abaqus/CAE:

  • Number of discrete values: 12 (user can modify, or ask Abaqus/CAE for "continuous" spectrum)
  • Above range color: RGB: [204, 204, 204]
  • Below range color: RGB: [51, 51, 51]

Just to show how the process I used:

  • Here are the default contour settings for a contour plot in Abaqus/CAE

Default contour settings in Abaqus/CAE

  • Here are the default spectrum settings for a contour plot in Abaqus/CAE

Default spectrum settings in Abaqus/CAE

  • Clicking on the color icon for the Greater than max (or Less than min) options brings up a color selection dialog

Default color for Greater than max

  • Opening the Spectrum Manager and editing the Rainbow spectrum pops up a dialog where double-clicking on each color pops up the same color selection dialog from above

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Since ParaView's colormap editor takes floats in the range [0-1] for its RGB, while Abaqus provides integers in the range [0-255], here are the raw Abaqus RGB values that I translated into ParaView's values (from blue to red):

R G B
0 0 255
0 92 255
0 185 255
0 255 231
0 255 139
0 255 46
46 255 0
139 255 0
231 255 0
255 185 0
255 92 0
255 0 0
  • I chose RGB: [255, 0, 255] for the NaN color since it doesn't appear in the rainbow and Abaqus/CAE doesn't have this concept, so isn't defined in Abaqus/CAE.

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