Generate Color Plot

Question

There is an object on an area with dimension M*M unit cells. The coverage rate C=1/M * Sum(i=1 to M J(i)) where J(i)=1 when the cell i is covered and 0 otherwise. This is a color scale map representing the visit of the cells vs the times of visiting by the object. So, the legend shows that there are cells which have been visited from 0 to 8 times in N number of iterations. Can anyone tell me how this color representation can be coded? What and how this can be generated?