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

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

On 2015/04/04 9:20 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> While it's taking longer than hoped, just to reassure you that this
> isn't total vaporware, here's a screenshot from the colormap designer
> that Stéfan van der Walt and I have been working on... still needs
> fine-tuning (which at this point probably won't happen until after I
> get back from PyCon), but we like what we're seeing so far :-)
>
> The colormap shown has, by construction, perfect lightness linearity
> and perfect perceptual uniformity, according to the better-than-CIELAB
> model used by the viscm tool I linked upthread.
>

Thanks for the update, and the progress.  The example colormap looks 
promising as a viable alternative.  It appears to have good contrast. 
How well does this type of map work with the colorblindness filters?

Eric