Re: [matplotlib-devel] Implementation of cubehelix color scheme

2011-09-12 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pim Schellart wrote: > Dear Developers, > > In the field of Astronomy (and in science in general) we often make > images that represent the intensity of some source. > However the color schemes used to display images are not perceived as > increasing monotonically i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Implementation of cubehelix color scheme

2011-09-12 Thread Eric Firing
On 09/09/2011 04:51 AM, Pim Schellart wrote: > Dear Developers, > > In the field of Astronomy (and in science in general) we often make > images that represent the intensity of some source. > However the color schemes used to display images are not perceived as > increasing monotonically in brightn

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Implementation of cubehelix color scheme

2011-09-12 Thread Christoph Gohlke
On 9/12/2011 10:35 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pim Schellart > wrote: > > Dear Developers, > > In the field of Astronomy (and in science in general) we often make > images that represent the intensity of some source. >

[matplotlib-devel] Tight layout function

2011-09-12 Thread Gökhan Sever
Hi, Thanks for the newly added plt.tight_layout function to the master mpl branch. This saves me from manually adjusting the spacing around the figure canvas each time I need to use the full available figure space. For this I was switching from Qt4Agg to WXAgg backend, so that I was able to read r