Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2015/02/18 6:31 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> The problem I have with hcl is that while it is technically "colorful"
> (or whatever the term may be), only the reds really come out because the
> other colors are only used when either really light or really dark.
> Perhaps squashing the brightness range a bit and let the natural
> lightness of yellow and the natural darkness of blue come through on
> their own.  (does that even make any sense to anybody else? it makes
> sense in my head, but I am certainly am not an expert in color perception)
>
> Ben Root
>
> P.S. - Of course, my own color perception weirdness might be at play
> here and the colormap looks perfectly fine to everybody else...

My own reaction to it is that it seems like a nicely *functional* 
colormap, one I would want to have available and probably would 
sometimes use, but it is not particularly aesthetically *pleasing*.  I 
think this is consistent with Olga's earlier post as well.

Eric