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

[jni <jni...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,
As someone working with images, I think for displaying images you want a
colormap that spans as much as possible of the luminance range. The colormap
suggested by Michael Waskom would be quite perfect as-is. (recap: middle
colormap here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/files/2013/08/three_perceptual_palettes_618.png)

I understand the concern that a colormap should be able to display things on
dark and light backgrounds, but this applies only to plots, not to images.
Tom Caswell emphasised the distinction between colormaps for continuous
variables and color cycles for categorical variables. There should also be a
distinction between image display and plotting. For image display, please
consider using a colormap with a wide luminance range.

Thanks!



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