As long as A and B are included as named options, I have no objections to D as default. (From a branding perspective though, I preferred being closer to GNUPlot than Matlab, but whatevs. Show MPL's roots I guess! =)
Juan. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > Greetings, matplotliberators! > > I've counted up the various "votes" people made regarding the > different colormap options at > https://bids.github.io/colormap > including the ones in the matplotlib-devel and -users threads and > elsewhere (private email, twitter), etc. > > There were two phases -- some people saw A/B/C, and some saw A/B/C/D, > so I'll separate the votes into those two groups. It's a bit > complicated to break down, also, because people expressed preferences > with different degrees of specificity ("I like X" vs total order vs > partial order...). > > ----------- Round 1 votes ----------- > > For those comparing A/B/C, the number of people with different preferences > were: > > First choice A: 6 votes > Of which: > A > C > B got 1 vote > A > B > C got 2 votes > > First choice B: 8 votes > Of which: > B > A > C got 3 votes > B > C > A got 1 vote > > First choice C: 7 votes > Of which: > C > A > B got 1 vote > C > B > A got 4 votes > > ----------- end of round 1 votes ----------- > > Then we added option D. > > ----------- Round 2 votes ----------- > > For those comparing A/B/C/D, the number of people with different > preferences were: > > First choice A: 0 votes > > First choice B: 2 votes > Of which: > B > A > C/D got 1 vote > > First choice C: 1 votes > Of which: > C > D > A/B got 1 vote > > First choice D: 12 votes > Of which: > D > C > A/B got 1 vote > D > A > C > B got 1 vote > > ----------- end of round 2 votes ----------- > > It seems that voting works better in some cases than others. > > So the next question is where we go from here. We need to pick a color > for this bikeshed at some point. One theory is that the next step is > to propose a bunch of variations on option D and have another round of > voting etc. Another is that we should just call it a day and decide > now :-). > > For reference, here's option D: > https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/option_d.png > > And here are the other greenish colormaps that have been mentioned: > https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/fake_parula.png > > https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/erics-RdBuGnYl_r.png > > https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/erics-RdBuGnYl_r_v2.png > > https://bids.github.io/colormap/images/screenshots/joes-blu_grn_pnk2.png > > My personal feeling is that all these alternatives are basically > reasonable colormaps, but compared to option D I find them kinda ugly, > and, more importantly, substantially worse for colorblind users, which > IMO should outweigh a marginal/debateable improvement for the rest of > us. > > So if it were up to me I'd be inclined to declare we've reached the > point of diminishing returns and go with D, but I don't know how > everyone else is feeling. Shall we just go for it? > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >
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