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

[Todd <tod...@gm...>]

On Feb 19, 2015 1:39 AM, "Nathaniel Smith" <nj...@po...> wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2015 3:39 PM, "Eric Firing" <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2015/02/16 1:29 PM, Michael Waskom wrote:
> >
> > > Nathaniel's January 9 message in that thread (can't figure out how to
> > > link to it in the archives) had a suggestion that I thought was very
> > > promising, to do something similar to Parula but rotate around the hue
> > > circle the other direction so that the hues would go blue - purple -
red
> > > - yellow. I don't think we've seen an example of exactly what it would
> > > look like, but I reckon it would be similar to the middle colormap
here
> > >
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/files/2013/08/three_perceptual_palettes_618.png
> > > (from the elegant figures block series linked above), which I've
always
> > > found quite attractive.
> >
> > Certainly it can be considered--but we have to have a real
implementation.
>
> While I hate to promise vaporware, I actually was planning to have a
> go at implementing such a colormap in the next few weeks, based on
> optimizing the same set of parameters that viscm visualizes... FWIW.
>
> Are we planning to make other default appearance changes at the same
> time? The idea of changing the color cycle and/or dot-dash cycle has
> already come up in this thread, and this earlier thread proposed
> several more good ideas [1]:
>
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.devel/13128/focus=13166
>


If the goal is still to put all the appearance-related changes in a single
release (to simplify changes to downstream unit tests), but nobody has
stepped up to make changes except to the colors, might it be possible to
just adopt the default seaborn style (except for colors, of course)?  If
anybody is strongly motivated to make changes they can, but if nobody does
there would still be a good, modern, pleasant-looking style used by default.