add cmyt coloramps too!

setup.cfg

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ keywords = yt_idv
 packages = find:
 install_requires =
     Click>=7.0
+    cmyt
     imgui>=1.2.0
     matplotlib>=3.0
     numpy>=1.18.0

yt_idv/_cmyt_utilities.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import cmyt
+from matplotlib.colors import Colormap
+
+# we want to display colormap name then cmyt for sorting purposes
+cmyt_names = [
+    f"{cm}.cmyt" for cm in dir(cmyt) if isinstance(getattr(cmyt, cm), Colormap)
+]
+
+
+def validate_cmyt_name(cm):
+    if cm.endswith(".cmyt"):
+        return "cmyt." + cm.split(".")[0]
+    return cm

yt_idv/opengl_support.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 # Set up a mapping from numbers to names
 from yt.utilities.math_utils import get_scale_matrix, get_translate_matrix
 
+from yt_idv._cmyt_utilities import validate_cmyt_name
 from yt_idv.constants import bbox_vertices
 
 const_types = (
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
     @traitlets.validate("colormap_name")
     def _validate_name(self, proposal):
         try:
-            plt.get_cmap(proposal["value"])
+            plt.get_cmap(validate_cmyt_name(proposal["value"]))
         except ValueError:
             raise traitlets.TraitError(
                 "Colormap name needs to be known by" "matplotlib"
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ def _validate_name(self, proposal):
 
     @traitlets.observe("colormap_name")
     def _observe_colormap_name(self, change):
-        cmap = plt.get_cmap(change["new"])
+        cmap = plt.get_cmap(validate_cmyt_name(change["new"]))
         cmap_vals = np.array(cmap(np.linspace(0, 1, 256)), dtype="f4")
         self.data = cmap_vals
 

yt_idv/scene_components/base_component.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import traitlets
 from OpenGL import GL
 
+from yt_idv._cmyt_utilities import cmyt_names
 from yt_idv.constants import FULLSCREEN_QUAD
 from yt_idv.gui_support import add_popup_help
 from yt_idv.opengl_support import (
@@ -20,7 +21,9 @@
 
 _cmaps = ["arbre", "viridis", "magma", "doom", "cividis", "plasma", "RdBu", "coolwarm"]
 _cmaps += [f"{_}_r" for _ in _cmaps]
-_cmaps.sort()
+# add in all the cmyt colormaps too! this will include the reversed maps too.
+_cmaps += cmyt_names
+_cmaps.sort(key=lambda v: v.lower())
 _buffers = ["frame", "depth"]