Re: [Matplotlib-users] Black and white mode

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

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:31 AM, William Furnass <wi...@th...>wrote:
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>>> Did anything ever come of the MPL black and white mode mentioned in
>>> the following?  I rarely want to produce colour plots and having an
>>> inbuilt mechanism for cycling through line styles that can be
>>> activated with a keyword argument would be very handy.
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>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg00367.html
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>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Will
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>> Perhap's Tony Yu's mpltools might be the closest we have gotten to this
>> goal.  There has been a number of technical hurdles that I have not had the
>> time or resources to iron out.  Hopefully, it will be helpful to you.
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>> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/getting_started.html
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>> Cheers!
>> Ben Root
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> Thanks for the advertisement Ben ;)
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> Will: If you're just interested in grayscale plotting, here's a direct
> link to the example:
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> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/style/plot_grayscale.html
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> The discussion that you link to talks specifically about line styles. In
> the past there's been discussion of adding a linestyle cycle rc param, but
> I don't think there's been progress on that front.
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> BTW, Ben: are you still thinking about some sort of hierarchical
> configuration management? I think it'd make a great MEP, if you find the
> time.
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Not necessarily a hierarchical config management, but rather a hierarchical
property management.  Of course, this was before I discovered
GraphicsContext, which makes me wonder if it could be generalized and moved
out of the backends to serve such a purpose.

Of course, with regards to rcparams, we definitely need to re-examine how
we are doing it right now before it gets too bloated...

Ben Root