I'm a big fan of option D. So much so that when I needed to make a movie of ony my galaxy simulations today I went ahead and used it:
https://youtu.be/bnm554et0T8 On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > Ooooh, I am liking "D" a lot. It is almost like what Parula should have > been. Still not quite perfect, but I can't put my finger on it. > > Ben Root > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > >
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