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# matplotlib.colors.Colormap

class `matplotlib.colors.``Colormap`(name, N=256)

  Baseclass for all scalar to RGBA mappings.

  Typically Colormap instances are used to convert data values (floats) from the interval `[0, 1]` to the RGBA color that the respective Colormap represents. For scaling of data into the `[0, 1]` interval see `matplotlib.colors.Normalize`. It is worth noting that `matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable` subclasses make heavy use of this `data->normalize->map-to-color` processing chain.

  Parameters: | name : str The name of the colormap. N : int The number of rgb quantization levels.