Same here. I prefer D over the rest because of both its aesthetic and technical merits.
Phil -------------------------------------------------- Phillip J. Wolfram, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Structural Mechanics Los Alamos National Laboratory Phone: (505) 667-3518 Email: pwolf...@lanl.gov On Jun 4, 2015, at 10:37 AM, <matplotlib-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> <matplotlib-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:37:12 -0700 > From: Brian Granger <elliso...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] RFC: candidates for a new default > colormap > To: Joe Kington <joferking...@gmail.com> > Cc: matplotlib-devel <matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <CAH4pYpRms3xbu=m==Jdi7=xjastuskpd-6+tyoo+vh05nr5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I very much like D. > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Joe Kington <joferking...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well that got horribly garbled somehow (and I hit send too early). Let me >> try that again: >> >> >> ? >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Joe Kington <joferking...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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, St?fan 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 >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> St?fan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> >> > > > -- > Brian E. 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