Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Waskom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > > Do you think there is a way to make a sequential map that is more pleasing > to those of us who are more comfortable with blues and greens than with the > slightly muddy purples and browns in the initial attempt at HCL? Just to be clear, H

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Firing
On 2015/02/18 2:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Feb 16, 2015 3:39 PM, "Eric Firing" wrote: >> >> On 2015/02/16 1:29 PM, Michael Waskom wrote: >> >>> Nathaniel's January 9 message in that thread (can't figure out how to >>> link to it in the archives) had a suggestion that I thought was very >>>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Firing
On 2015/02/18 2:42 PM, Olga Botvinnik wrote: > FYI the notebook isn't working for me in IPython 2.2.0 > > I agree with Michael's sentiment that from a marketing perspective, a > matplotlib-only colormap is advantageous to maintain a consistent brand. Provided we can find a good colormap for that p

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Thomas Caswell
@Nathaniel I think developing the color-overhaul as a maintenance release is a decent compromise. All non-color changes get directed at the master branch and we can cherry-picked back bug-fixes as needed. The next feature release is planned for July/August, I _really_ hope sorting out the colors

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Waskom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Olga Botvinnik wrote: > FYI the notebook isn't working for me in IPython 2.2.0 > Oops, sorry. > I agree with Michael's sentiment that from a marketing perspective, a > matplotlib-only colormap is advantageous to maintain a consistent brand. > Just to be clear,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Olga Botvinnik
FYI the notebook isn't working for me in IPython 2.2.0 I agree with Michael's sentiment that from a marketing perspective, a matplotlib-only colormap is advantageous to maintain a consistent brand. Will these colormaps also be used for non-imshow/colormesh/pcolormesh data, as in for line colors a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Feb 16, 2015 3:39 PM, "Eric Firing" wrote: > > On 2015/02/16 1:29 PM, Michael Waskom wrote: > > > Nathaniel's January 9 message in that thread (can't figure out how to > > link to it in the archives) had a suggestion that I thought was very > > promising, to do something similar to Parula but r

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Waskom
I've made a second notebook that uses the IPython interactive machinery to let anyone play with the parameters and explore different ways of setting them. you can download the notebook with that here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/mwaskom/842d1497b6892d081bfb (I made it using IPython 3.0rc1; I'm

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Michael Waskom
Cool! I knew there had been some useful tools posted on the earlier thread but didn't have time to dig them out. Interesting observation about the colorfulness. I don't know enough about all the transformations involved to full account for that, but I added some stuff to the notebook to figure out

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Firing
On 2015/02/18 6:31 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > The problem I have with hcl is that while it is technically "colorful" > (or whatever the term may be), only the reds really come out because the > other colors are only used when either really light or really dark. > Perhaps squashing the brightness ra

Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

2015-02-18 Thread Benjamin Root
The problem I have with hcl is that while it is technically "colorful" (or whatever the term may be), only the reds really come out because the other colors are only used when either really light or really dark. Perhaps squashing the brightness range a bit and let the natural lightness of yellow a

[matplotlib-devel] Produce text runs in the postscript backend

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Moore
Hi, I posted on the user list a while back about saving editable text using the postscript backend [1]. There I was informed that this was changed a few years ago to individually place glyphs. It looks to me, that this change was about correctly supporting unicode in this backend [2]. Would the