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

[Pierre H. <pie...@cr...>]

Hi,
Le 01/03/2015 23:27, jni a écrit :
> 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)
>
Thanks for this feedback. Could you please elaborate a bit on this
usecase. I was thinking, naively, that when plotting a grayscale image,
one would simply used a gray colormap. Do you have some examples to
illustrate what kind of results you are expecting ?

best,
Pierre