On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Jonathan Slavin <jsla...@cfa.harvard.edu>wrote:
> Just one quick thought. I hope that you will implement a longer default
> color cycle than the current default. I have several times run into
> situations where I have to either modify the cycle or specify the colors
> manually because I had more than 7 lines.
Once the framework is in-place, that is certainly possible. I agree that
the current list is probably too short and could use 3 or 4 more values.
> Also, it'd be nice to have
> the colors be as distinguishable as possible (at least early in the
> cycle).
Agreed. Having blue and then green has always annoyed me. However, I am
hardly a color expert, and I would greatly welcome input from the peanut
gallery (possibly from the same people pushing for a change in the default
colormap?)
> I agree that having linestyle cycling as well would be nice,
> though it's difficult to imagine as many distinguishable line styles as
> colors, though there could certainly be more than the current 4.
A new feature added in v1.1.0 was the ability to specify custom line
styles, and a quick look through the line styles available in LibreOffice
could be an inspiration for some more standard styles.
> I wonder about a simple mechanism to opt for line style cycling rather
> than color cycling so as to produce black & white plots (as mentioned in
> another post).
>
The idea is that since these are all configurable through the rcparam
mechanism, standard profiles can be created with various combinations of
settings and all a user (or a convenience function) has to do is
"matplotlibrc.update(mystyle_profile)". Note, this wouldn't be a "live"
switch of styles. In other words, once an element has been plotted,
changing the profile will not update those plot elements.
Ben Root
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