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

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

"sunset" has a connotation of things ending. Howabout "sunrise"?

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Olga Botvinnik <obo...@uc...> wrote:

> 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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