Personally, just looking at the images I think B looks more professional, the others look faded. With A and B I see more of "contrast" in the core of the radial image (though that might arise from a combination of my monitor/eyes, though I usually do quite well in colour perception tests).
I think we really need to see a variety of real examples before we make a decision though, both in application a.k.a different type of datasets, including ones with NaNs; and different graph types, the 3d example will make for a good test as we get the same information twice, from height and colour, which gives us a reference for comparison. With the NaNs Andreas, why did you pick B over C? My eyes see B going to white as well, only C as far as I can tell does not go to white. Looking forward to having a play later :). I wonder what Parula-based colormap would look like if we were to make it linear... one other thing, mpl currently doesn't select good bounds with pure horizontal/vertical lines, making it very difficult (at least for me) to see the perceptual deltas, zoomed in to option_c the line gets completely hidden by the axes... On 03/06/15 09:04, Andreas Hilboll wrote: > On 03.06.2015 08:54, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: >> You can always use green for NaN with any of these maps... > In grayscale that then wouldn't be distinguishable at all ... > >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Andreas Hilboll <li...@hilboll.de >> <mailto:li...@hilboll.de>> wrote: >> >> > I particularly like that A ends on the white end of the spectrum >> >> That's exactly why I don't like A that much. >> >> In many plots, I need a color for NaN results. This color should not >> fall within the normal range of the colormap. In case of B and C, it >> would be possible to use white as NaN color. When using white for NaN >> in A, it would just look like large values. So I guess I'm voting >> >> B > C > A >> >> -- Andreas. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
