Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-17 Thread Michael Waskom
Hey Olga, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Olga Botvinnik obotv...@ucsd.edu wrote: Out of curiosity, what are the advantages of the HCL colormap over YlGnBu for continuous values? I'm biased towards YlGnBu because green is my favorite color and want to know what makes HCL objectively better

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-17 Thread Olga Botvinnik
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages of the HCL colormap over YlGnBu for continuous values? I'm biased towards YlGnBu because green is my favorite color and want to know what makes HCL objectively better for perceiving values. I added YlGnBu_r versions of those plots just below yours:

[matplotlib-devel] bad zooming performance on large dataset

2015-02-17 Thread Neal Becker
I plotted a large number of bars on a bargraph. I am not surprised memory usage and time to draw are bad on the initial view. But I'd expect as I zoom in more and more, the time to draw should improve - there's less to draw. This does not appear to be the case. -- -- Those who don't

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release planning/milestones

2015-02-17 Thread Todd
I wasn't referring to just the default colors, but the default style in general. Things like background, line thickness, padding, ticks, etc. I thought that there was agreement that the default matplotlib style is not optimal, and that the point of the 2.0 release was to put all the stylistic

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.4.3

2015-02-17 Thread Nelle Varoquaux
Thanks again Thomas for the release ! Cheers, N On 17 February 2015 at 06:09, Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We are pleased to announce the release of matplotlib v1.4.3! Wheels, windows binaries and the source tarball are available through both source-forge [1] and