I would support this as a package on its own. Having all of these palettes in a single place would be better than having to install multiple packages, imho.
Randy Zwitch (11/24): > Since the Julia ecosystem is getting bigger, I figured I'd propose this > here first and see what people think is the right way forward (instead of > wasting people's time at METADATA) > > In the R community, they've created two packages of novelty color schemes: > Wes > Anderson <https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson> and Beyonce > <https://github.com/dill/beyonce>. While humorous, these color palettes are > interesting to me and I'd like to make them available in Vega.jl (and Julia > more broadly). Should I: > > 1) Not do it at all....because this is a serious, scientific community! > 2) Do two separate packages, mimicking R > 3) Create a single NoveltyColors.jl package, in case there are other > palettes that come up in the future > 4) Make a feature request at Colors.jl (really not my favorite choice, > since there is so much cited research behind the palettes) > > I neglected to mention ColorBrewer.jl (which Vega.jl uses), since > ColorBrewer is a known entity in the plotting community. > > What do people think? Note, I'm not looking for anyone to do the work (I'll > do it), just looking for packaging input. -- Timothée Poisot Professeur adjoint Quantitative and Computational Ecology Department of Biological Sciences Université de Montréal WEB http://poisotlab.io/ TWITTER @PoisotLab
