Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-08-03 Thread Benjamin Root
Whoops, I hadn't realized I stumbled onto a clone of sourceforge (a mirror?). Here is the real link: http://sourceforge.net/p/matplotlib/mailman/message/188760/ On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > For those interested, I have found the release announcement that > introduced t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-08-03 Thread Benjamin Root
For those interested, I have found the release announcement that introduced the jet colormap: http://ehc.ac/p/matplotlib/mailman/message/188760/ . We have someone named "Perry" to blame... :-P Ben Root On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Just to keep my notes in one place...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-08-01 Thread Benjamin Root
Just to keep my notes in one place... from Matplotlib's "Introduction" page is prose that I assume was written by John: For years, I used to use MATLAB exclusively for data analysis and visualization. MATLAB excels at making nice looking plots easy. When I began working with EEG data, I found that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-07-30 Thread Benjamin Root
Fernando, This information is going to be the preface of my book on using matplotlib for making an interactive application (sorry, no IPython, the editor wanted to keep the scope tight). So, what I am looking for are some of the major interactive features (who supplied them, and their reasons/purp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-07-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Ben, if by interactive plotting you refer to using it interactively via ipython and other such systems, there's a good part of that history that is spread somewhere between the early mpl and ipython archives AND John's and my personal inboxes. A good chunk of that (not all, mind you, since man

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib history

2014-07-30 Thread Benjamin Root
Hello all, I am trying to put together notes for a writeup on a short history of matplotlib (in particular, its uses for interactive plotting). I have John Hunter's SciPy 2012 Keynote, which helps, but I was hoping for some other sources. Unfortunately, searching for "matplotlib" and "history" ge