Minerals

Similarly to lithologies and features, for minerals, an entry in the dictionary is formatted as follows:

• key: the name of the mineral to be used in the input file

• value: a tuple containing three elements:

  • fill colour (e.g., ‘#FFFF00’, ‘yellow’, (1,1,0))

  • edge colour

  • marker shape

Note that for minerals, the display name is the title case of the key.

sp.update_minerals( {
    # Magenta diamond with black edge - overrides default garnet style
    'garnet': ('#FF00FF', 'k', 'd'),
    # Orange circle with brown edge - new mineral
    'honeystone': ('orange', 'brown', 'o'),
} )

A full list of available marker shapes can be found in the Matplotlib documentation here.

Note

Remember to run sp.update_minerals(...) before any plotting. Restarting the Python kernel resets all customisations to defaults.