number of rows and columns (default = 10; if length 2, then
dimensions of rectangle).
cols
vector of length >= 4 of colors (example, default = rainbow
(4), or from RColorBrewer, brewer.pal (4, 'Set1')). cols are wrapped
clockwise around the corners from top left to bottom left.
rotate
rotates the entire colour matrix by the specified angle (in
degrees).