One other (admittedly very minor) consideration is how the colormaps look with shading applied. To borrow from the hillshading example <http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/examples/specialty_plots/topographic_hillshading.html> :
(The image appears to be too large to attatch. Try here: http:// <http://www.geology.beer/images/hillshaded.png>www.geology.beer <http://www.geology.beer/images/hillshaded.png>/images/ <http://www.geology.beer/images/hillshaded.png>hillshaded.png <http://www.geology.beer/images/hillshaded.png>) <http://www.geology.beer/images/hillshaded.png> I personally really like option D for a lot of reasons, but this is another reason to prefer it. Providing additional information through "shading" etc, still works quite well. Option C also does well in this particular test, though it appears too "washed out" for my tastes. At least to my eyes, options B fairs particularly poorly. In B's case, the fact that the colormap runs towards black means that hillshading is difficult to distinguish from elevation changes. A suffers from similar problems in this case, though they're much less severe. In my personal opinion: D >> A > C > B Cheers, -Joe Fun activity: watch all 6 videos in a row then watch the text on this email spin and spin. =P Gorgeous! Thanks Nathan! I hope this kills C dead. It clearly makes certain features of the simulation harder to spot. A great demo of the terribleness of jet, too: it looks like a huge mess. On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I'm a big fan of option D. So much so that when I needed to make a >> movie of >> > ony my galaxy simulations today I went ahead and used it: >> > >> > https://youtu.be/bnm554et0T8 >> >> Beautiful! How hard would it be to also do this for the other >> proposed colormaps? >> > > Thankfully you made it pretty easy to script this. > > jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsvT5hImPmo > > parula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8146CMi-OaQ > > option a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqvxuQSzWO4 > > option b: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7bpV3XPV0 > > option c: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rHbq4jw1ew > > option d: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HiUXVNm2k > > >> >> Stéfan >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
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