Re: [matplotlib-devel] Request for feedback regarding creation of a plot-type object.

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Perry" == Perry Greenfield <pe...@st...> writes:

    Perry> Before you go off in this direction, could you outline how
    Perry> you think colormaps should work? From the sounds of it, you
    Perry> are addressing mostly cases where users have specifically
    Perry> picked colors and you would like colorbar() to work with
    Perry> the selected colors. Generally speaking, you seem to be

Isn't this closely related to the idea we've tslked about a number of
times (mostly off list) to supplant the colormap infrastructure with a
"DiscreteColormap" or something along those lines, which mapped data
to a set of discrete colors, using nearest neighbor or what have
you.  Then you would have the best of both worlds: your favorite
colors and consistency with the mpl colorbar/colormapping API.  Would
this work?

JDH