On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > On 2015/06/02 7:58 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Paul Ivanov <p...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > > >> That said, if you want to play around with the editor tool, it's >> linked on the webpage :-). > > > This is a really nice tool! > > Attached is an example of a map that circles the other direction, and that > sacrifices some visual delta for less extreme ends. Although I think the > "sunrise" type of map that you offered in versions A, B, and C is a good one > to have in the arsenal, I am not convinced that it should be the only > category to be considered as a default. Do we really want to reject the > somewhat Parula-like category just because Matlab uses the real Parula? > > I'm not saying the attached example is particularly good; it is intended to > re-introduce the category. (It is somewhat similar to a reversal of our > ColorBrewer YlGnBu, so I tried to name it following that scheme.)
That is nice! For those following along at home, here's what Eric's colormap looks like: https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/erics_PuBuGnYl_r.png We also tried tweaking it a bit to end on a more saturated yellow, which I think helps increase contrast in the deuteranomalous version in particular, and put this on the website as an "option D": https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/option_d.png We also previously designed a colormap that follows parula's ideas pretty closely, in terms of starting/ending points, overall brightness, and the trick of kinking over through orange at the top end. It ends up being much much more green than parula though: https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/fake_parula.png > It seems that the fundamental constraints in this map generator tend to > yield a somewhat muddy dark end and a muted middle. That's one compromise > among many that are possible. You can somewhat avoid the muddy end by bumping up the minimum brightness (option C does this to some extent), but of course that has other trade-offs. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
