On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > As was hinted at in a previous thread, Stéfan van der Walt and I have > been using some Fancy Color Technology to attempt to design a new > colormap intended to become matplotlib's new default. (Down with jet!) > > Unfortunately, while our Fancy Color Technology includes a > computational model of perceptual distance, it does not include a > computational model of aesthetics. So this is where you come in. > > We've put up three reasonable candidates at: > https://bids.github.io/colormap/ > (along with some well-known colormaps for comparison), and we'd like > your feedback. > > They are all optimal on all of the objective criteria we know how to > measure. What we need judgements on is which one you like best, both > aesthetically and as a way of visualizing data. (There are some sample > plots to look at there, plus you can download them and play with them > on your own data if you want.) > > We especially value input from anyone with anomalous color vision. > There are some simulations there, but computational models are > inherently limited here. (It's difficult to ask someone with > colorblindness "does this look to you, the same way this other picture > looks to me?") > > -n > I assume these are all going to be available as colormaps? I prefer C, the others seem to dark. Having too much black doesn't strike me as very aesthetically pleasing. So I would say C > B > A
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