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

[Olga B. <obo...@uc...>]

How about "pythonic sunset" ?

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:01 PM Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> That is nice. The blue is a bit heavy, but that might be my display. Now,
> how should we order it by default? I am used to thinking of blues as lower
> values, and reds as higher. The yellow at the end throws me off a bit,
> because I would think of it as a "weaker" color. Maybe if it was more
> gold-like?
>
> We should also start thinking of a snazzy name. BlRdYe probably won't cut
> it.
>
> Ben Root
> On Apr 5, 2015 3:21 AM, "Nathaniel Smith" <nj...@po...> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>> > On 2015/02/18 2:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > It might be worth quite a bit--and the sooner, the better.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org
>>
>>
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