Inverse pole figure, Euler-angle, axis-angle and misorientation colour keys for orientation data.

Class or function	Description
orientationColorKey	base class for mapping crystal orientations to RGB colours
BungeColorKey	colour orientations by their three Bunge Euler angles
PatalaColorKey	the misorientation key of Patala, Mason and Schuh for m-3m, m-3, mmm, 4/mmm and 6/mmm
axisAngleColorKey	the rotation from a reference orientation as a colour: its axis in the specimen frame through the key of the whole sphere, its angle through the saturation (Thomsen et al.)
ipfColorKey	colour orientations by the crystal direction parallel to a chosen specimen direction
ipfHKLKey	the inverse pole figure key of HKL Channel 5, the HKLDirectionKey on the Laue group
ipfHSVKey	the default MTEX inverse pole figure colour key
ipfSpotKey	single spots of the inverse pole figure in their own colours
ipfTSLKey	the inverse pole figure key of TSL / OIM, the TSLDirectionKey on the Laue group
spectralTransmissionColorKey	the colour of a thin section of an anisotropic crystal between polariser and analyser: light along the propagation direction of the specimen through a plate of the given thickness in nanometres
spotColorKey	highlight selected orientations with colours that fade to white with disorientation
colorGrid	a direction key evaluated once on a cube map of the sphere at the resolution, its colours then looked up at the node nearest a direction
ipfColors	the colour of every measurement of a map, or of every grain, each phase by its own inverse pole figure key

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/orientationColorKeys_index_py.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX

@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

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Orientation colour keys