On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Pierre Haessig <pierre.haes...@crans.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Matlab is now shipping with a new default colormap, named "parula" > [1,2]. It is meant to overcome the many issues of the current default > "jet". It seems that the RGB values of this new colormap are already > onnline [3]. > > So my question is: > * is it worth adding this parula in the Matplotlib colormap collection ? > (I think it is) > * is there any copyright issue with that ? (I have no idea how > copyrightable a list of numbers is !)
The general rule is that copyright requires "creative expression". This is a pretty marginal case at best, since that the colormap appears to have been derived by solving an optimization problem, but worst case we could always re-solve that optimization problem ourselves. (I've played before with using CAM02-UCS to automatically generate perceptually uniform colormaps - it's not terribly difficult to do.) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
