[Plplot-devel] Re: Default colours for PLplot

[Thomas J. D. <to...@fi...>]

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Hi,

> I like the general idea since I have changed to such a scheme for my own
> research plots.  One thing you do have to worry about with such a scheme
> is the white background tends to make colours look really washed out
> unless they are quite intense colours.  I think I have solved that
> problem, but judge for yourselves (see the figures in the paper I
> finished on Friday, http://freeeos.sourceforge.net/coulomb.pdf).
> Perhaps a default background that was _slightly_ grey might intensify
> the colours a bit more?

     Nice plots, Alan!

     I think that it would be best to just fix the pallettes altogether.
If we are all swapping in Black on White at the very beginning anyway, and
changing the pallette to produce intense colours, then these are good
reasons to change the default behaviour.

     What I would suggest is this: Let's make the changes, but delay the
next development release while we shake out the problems that crop up.
For example:

  1) We may need to fix some examples.  Most will be OK if the pallette
     changes are optimum.  However, example 8 has some greyscale that's
     not going to work.  I'm not sure what to do with that.

  2) Some of the drivers will need to be updated.  I know one thing that
     will need changing in the PlplotCanvas.  Also, some of the GD driver
     options will need name changes, and these should be updated in
     the documentation.

There may be others...

Cheers,
Tom

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