cpt-city old news

Older changes

06/09/2014: Added the sky gradients by Rafi.
01/09/2014: Added the GRID-Arendal schemes.
06/06/2014: Added the IDV schemes.
25/02/2014: Gradients in the PaintShop Pro format, formerly with the "grd" extension, now have the "PspGradient" extension.
13/02/2014: Added the Gacruxa art gradients.
04/11/2013: Added the Heine collection of scales for geological time.
08/07/2013: Added a bathymetry-only variant of the IBCSO scheme for Southern Ocean bathymetry.
15/06/2013: Added the NSA scheme for global surveillance.
11/04/2013: Added the IBCSO scheme for Southern Ocean bathymetry.
05/04/2013: Added the lookup tables from the ImageJ astronomical visualisation program.
25/02/2013: Added the colour maps included with the Fractint fractal generation program.
19/02/2013: Added two wikipedia cartographic schemes: subtle elevation for Pakistan and a topographic/bathymetric scheme for Colombia.
01/10/2012: Experimental tagging removed.
17/08/2012: All SVG files now include a preview.; New metadata files DESC.xml are included in the zipfiles, this information can be used by software (in particular, QGIS) to aid the browsing a downloaded copy of the archive.; All COPYING.xml files now include a distribute field, used by 3rd party distributors of subpackages. Currently only QGIS uses this field, other projects are welcome to use the same mechanism.
08/08/2012: Added an experimental tagging feature. The tags will be used to improve existing selections (views) and generate new ones.
04/07/2012: Added new cartographic from wikipedia users TUBS and Lilleskut.
12/06/2012: Added the classic schemes by Peggy Jentoft.
08/05/2012: Added the mby scheme by M. Burak YIKILMAZ.
18/04/2012: Added Kenneth Moreland's diverging schemes.
12/04/2012: Added the XKCD bathymetry scheme and the GIMP Paint Studio gradients.
05/04/2012: Added Greg Reed's discretisation of the ETOPO1 palette.
03/04/2012: Added new Wikipedia schemes for precipitation.; Lithuanian elevation.; Several new standard schemes for countries.; Elevation schemes extracted from old encyclopedias.
27/03/2012: Added new Wikipedia schemes for life expectancy and Black Forest topography.
09/03/2012: Added the SAGA colour tables.
25/01/2012: Added the cubehelix schemes by Dave Green.
20/01/2012: Added the NCL colourmaps.
04/01/2012: Updated Tom Patterson's topographical schemes.
30/12/2011: Added wkp/plumbago, a global elevation scheme.; Added three more wikipedia country schemes.
16/12/2011: Added os, elevation schemes from the Ordnance Survey.; Added Tom Patterson's schemes for US physical maps.
30/11/2011: Added ukmo, several schemes for meteorology from the UK Met office.; Added gery's scheme for seismic amplitude plots.
25/11/2011: Added new wikipedia schemes, wkp/ice for ice-thickness, and another for the elevation and bathymetry of the Celtic Sea.
20/11/2011: Added pd/astro, a set of gradients taken from astronomical images, by Piecrust Design.
16/11/2011: Completed the transition to full alpha channel (transparency, opacity) support. Gradients which have an alpha channel now have an extra field in their description stating the colour which replaces alpha in formats which do not support it (cpt, soa, gpf). The form is αB for black, αW for white and so on.
28/10/2011: All gradients now available in the SOA/DS9 colour map (soa) format.
16/10/2011: Updated all of the COLOURLovers palettes and their continuous versions using the variable widths now available in the COLOURLovers web API.
01/08/2011: Added a Wikipedia χ² confidence scheme.
05/05/2011: All gradients now available in the CCS3 gradient (c3g) format.
12/04/2011: Added three new GRASS colour ramps.
10/03/2011: Added the ESRI ramps.
04/03/2011: Added four Wikipedia stratigraphy schemes.
04/02/2011: Added the Blackheartedwolf art gradients.
30/01/2011: Updated the neota gradients.
01/11/2010: All gradients now available in the Gnuplot format (gpf).; Several new schemes in pm.
22/10/2010: Added the Petr Mikulík's Gnuplot/pm3d schemes.
18/10/2010: Added the CalorieLab obesity schemes.
11/10/2010: Added the IBCAO scheme for arctic bathymetry.
15/09/2010: Added some Art Deco and Nouveau gradients by Piecrust Design.
10/09/2010: Added a selection of COLOURLovers palettes by evad (and continuous versions).
15/07/2010: Added GMT nighttime by Andreas Trawoeger.
27/06/2010: Added DS9 colour scales for astronomy in ds9.
08/06/2010: Felix von Luschan skin-colour scales in fvl.
19/05/2010: Four new garish DEM palettes in jjg/dem.
18/04/2010: Improved versions of jjg/cbcont and jjg/cbac.
14/04/2010: Added Neota 10, ten-step sequential schemes based on Neota's gradients.
09/04/2010: Continuous versions of the COLOURLovers collection
04/04/2010: Continuous and near-continuous versions of Cynthia Brewer's schemes.
02/04/2010: Serrated versions of Cynthia Brewer's schemes.
23/03/2010: Legends for geospatial data from the New Jersey Geographical Survey.
12/03/2010: Added three new Wikipedia schemes.
21/01/2010: Added the NCDC's palette for the probability of a white Christmas.
16/01/2010: Due to a typo in a build script all of the version 1.57 zip files contained only cpt files, now fixed.
12/01/2010: Added copyright information for all files. The information applies to all of the gradients in a directory, and so some directory reorganisation was required for J.J. Green's gradients and the Wikipedia schemes.
29/12/09: Added Duncan Agnew's alarm palettes.; Added new ipod and button selections from GoSquared.
28/12/09: Added the KST gradients.
03/12/09: Added Fused Graphic's gradients for Vista login buttons.
18/11/09: Updated Nevit Dilmen's collection.
21/10/09: Added a wikipedia palette for the planet Mars.
08/10/09: All files generated from Paint Shop Pro gradients have been reprocessed with the latest version of pspcpt.
06/10/09: Three new schemes in the GRASS collection.
23/09/09: Added a hansome collection of 690 art gradients by ElvenSword.
22/08/09: Added two new Wikipedia schemes.
08/07/09: Renamed several gradients to remove trailing underscores.; The SVG gradients are now formatted with the xmllint program included with libxml2.
14/06/09: Added three new Wikipedia schemes.
12/06/09: Added several new schemes to jjg.
01/06/09: More COLOURlovers palettes from Skyblue2u, adgrapho, alpen and angelafaye.
05/05/09: Added the GMT palettes cyclic and panoply.
04/05/09: Added Wikipedia schemes for Scotland, Djerba and the Gulf of Tunis.
03/05/09: Added Wikipedia scheme wiki-france.
23/04/09: Added version 2.0 of the Wikipedia DEM scheme to wkp.
17/02/09: Moved Rick Franzen's pseudogrey into its own section, rf.
12/02/09: Added ngdc, a colour palette for ETOPO1 data.
09/02/09: New gradients from photographs of food and flowers, by Piecrust design.
02/02/09: Added h5, colour tables from the h5utils package.
27/01/09: Added oc, gradients from NASA's OceanColor site.
10/01/09: We've moved again, now hosted by Seaview Sensing's server soliton.
04/01/09: Added jmn, James McNames' monotonic luminance gradient.
20/12/08: Added grass, the GRASS GIS colour maps.
30/10/08: Added colo, a selection of COLOURlover palettes.
10/08/08: Added go2, GoSquared's glossy gradients.
25/06/08: Added wkp, Wikipedia DEM schemes.
11/04/08: Added lb, gradients from Loadboy.
07/04/08: Added esdb, gradients from the European Soil Database.
14/01/08: Added sd, gradients for web 2.0 by Sarah Davison.
16/11/07: Added jjg/polarity, gradients for signed data.
16/11/07: Added jjg/haxbyish, a selection of variants on the Haxby palette.
03/10/07: We've moved again, now hosted on Seaview Sensing's server sview01.
01/07/07: Added the gradients by Hult.
14/01/07: Added some piecharts of the relative popularity of the various formats available.
01/11/06: New gradients by Diane Simoni. One set from icons and another inspired by reddish grunge.
29/10/06: Added the drywet palette to GMT.
26/10/06: Added seven new gradients from Piecrust Design.
30/09/06: All gradients now also available in version 3 of the grd format (supported by Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop) converted with an experimental code; these have only been lightly tested, please report any problems.
29/08/06: Added 4 sets of subtle gradients by Meghan Miller of Crumblingwalls.
28/08/06: All POV-Ray headers regenerated with version 1.25 of cptutils, the colour-map name is now coerced to contain only alphanumerics and underscores (fixing some POV-Ray parse errors).
27/06/06: More from Michele Albert with gradients inspired by icecream and a striking selection of red-greys.
26/06/06: A selection of fuschia gradients has been contributed by Diane Simoni.
08/04/06: Updated Peggy Jentoft's gradients, adding her seventh selection.
27/03/06: Updated the gradients by Michele Albert, adding a fresh spicy selection.
26/03/06: Added some examples, contributions would be most welcome!
26/01/06: Another move for cpt-city (now hosted by pdfb's server) and now, finally, the POV-Ray grandients can be downloaded,; Updated files by Thomas Lotze.
02/01/06: Added the gradients by Michele Albert, several themed selections of palettes for anime and graphic design.
28/11/05: Updated the gradients by Ingerlise.
20/11/05: Added the ShadeMax palettes by Jim Mossman.
11/11/05: Added the voxpop diverging gradient.
21/09/05: Added the GIST gradients.
21/09/05: Added the gradients by Peggy Jentoft.; Added the POV-Ray colour-map headers with more than 20 stops.; POV-Ray file are still unavailable due to server problems.
30/08/05: Following several requests, most of the gradients are now also available as POV-Ray colour-map header files (inc).
29/08/05: Added four DEM palettes by Fred M. Erickson.
25/08/05: Added the sky gradients from Piecrust Design.; Sorted out the mime-types, I think, having set all gradients to be of type "text/other". Text, so that line-ending conversion should be done for people on wierd platforms. Other, as I don't want to view a gradient as text (in the way you would with a README.txt), and on firefox "text/other" forces a download dialogue. Nice. If you know a better type please let me know.
24/08/05: On the move; cpt-city now has a new home. Many thanks to the University of Sheffield for hosting the site for the last 2 years.
09/07/05: Download stats now exclude muliple downloads of a file to the same IP.
26/06/05: New versions of the cpt and ggr files translated from the Open Clipart Library SVG gradients. The ggr files now have a correct alpha channel.
04/06/05: All svg gradients updated following some enhancements to the cpt to svg translation code.
31/05/05: Gradients are now also available in the svg format using an experimental conversion from cpt. A few cpt files (those with HSV colour model, and those with hatchures) do not yet translate.
23/04/05: Gradients are now also available in the ggr (GIMP gradient) format.; Updated Nevit Dilmen's gradients.
25/03/05: Added new palette pseudogrey with 1785 levels of near grey, from an idea by Rich Franzen.
08/02/05: Added the gradients by Ingerlise, again converted from the Paint Shop Pro gradient format.
28/01/05: Added a fine set of subtle gradients by onecoldcanadian. These were converted from the Paint Shop Pro gradient format with an experimental code; they may be subject to change.
28/12/04: Modified the way that the png files are generated, hatchures are now much clearer.
20/12/04: Added a monthly history page to the site statistics.
03/12/04: Changed the processing of the statistics used to make the distribution map and most popular pages. Now IP addresses which download more than 300 cpt files are excluded from consideration. This change is in response to a problem with dozy crawlers which do not honour robots.txt.
28/11/04: Added new palette gebco-shelf for continental shelf bathymetry. This is the GMT gebco palette but with a maximal depth of 700m rather than 7000m.
14/11/04: Added a page of links.
14/10/04: Several corrections to the cpt-city debian package which seems to be moving towards stability.
11/10/04: Added the cpt-city package page.
05/10/04: Fixed a couple of broken links.
12/09/04: Added selected ocal gradients to the hueshift and blues views.
11/09/04: Second attempt at the Open Clip Art Library gradients. All now translate, and the page now renders correctly on Gecko browsers.
10/09/04: Added first attempt at a translation of the Open Clip Art Library gradients. There are a few which do not yet translate.
05/09/04: Added validation links and a new view of hueshift palettes.
31/08/04: Download statistics page now has a table as well as a map.
29/08/04: Split the bathymetry view into bathymetry and blues. Added a view of palettes for topography and topography & bathymetry.
28/08/04: Added a view of palettes for bathymetry.
27/08/04: Corrected defintion list errors in news, and gave it a bit of a tidy up.
26/08/04: The 6,000th cpt download. Everybody wants to live in cpt-city, and who can blame them?
26/08/04: The site notes are now generated with the perl template toolkit: this is for future extension and should not affect the site's appearance.
26/08/04: Added some internal links.
22/08/04: A superficial reorganisation of the front-page dividing peripheral material into notes, stats and views categories, the directory structure of the site being change to reflect this.
18/08/04: Links to gimpcpt redirected to cptutils.
10/08/04: Fixed a few broken links.
21/06/04: Added a map of download distribution.
18/06/04: Neota has kindly contributed his most recent colour work, a panorama of 136 continuous toning gradients for pixel art. This really is a fabulous collection.
03/06/04: Added Neota's gradients.
03/05/04: New page listing the top 30 downloads.
25/04/04: Added ukdem, a lightly saturated DEM palette by J.J. Green.
22/04/04: Added Eric R. Jeschke's toning samples.
22/04/04: Fixed some typos in contributors notes.
12/04/04: Updated J.J. Green's palettes visspec and bbrad.
29/03/04: Added the nonlinear greyscales by Thomas Lotze.
28/03/04: Added the gradients by Nevit Dilmen to the archive
28/03/04: Corrected CSS typo which gave a misrendering on Gecko based browsers.
21/03/04: Image page centring should now work correctly in IE5.
21/03/04: Corrected some typos in Cynthia Brewer's pages.
21/03/04: Fixed the incorrect ranges appearing in some of the image pages.
15/03/04: New contribution by Victor Huerfano.