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M. Built-in color palette tables

GMT has 20 built-in color palette tables (master cpt files). The following is a plot of each one:

Figure M.1: The standard 20 cpt files supported by GMT.
\begin{figure}\centering\epsfig{figure=eps/GMT_App_M.eps}\end{figure}

The programs makecpt and grd2cpt are used to access these master tables and translate/scale them to fit the user's range of $z$-values. The final cpt tables can be discrete (top half of each scale) or continuous (bottom half).


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Paul Wessel 2004-10-01