Re: [Matplotlib-users] Circular colormaps

2009-11-09 Thread Chloe Lewis
... and for dessert, is there a circular colormap that would work for the colorblind? My department is practicing presenting-science-for-the-general-public, and the problems 'heat maps' have for the colorblind keep coming up. handy:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Circular colormaps

2009-11-09 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-11-09 11:46 AM, Chloe Lewis wrote: ... and for dessert, is there a circular colormap that would work for the colorblind? Almost certainly not, at least not without compromising other desirable features for circular colormaps. You could do a circle roughly perpendicular to the lines

[Matplotlib-users] Circular colormaps

2009-11-08 Thread Ariel Rokem
Hi everyone, I am interested in using a circular colormap, in order to represent a phase variable, but I don't like 'hsv' (which is circular). In particular, I find that it induces perceptual distortion, where values in the green/yellow part of the colormap all look the same. Are there any

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Circular colormaps

2009-11-08 Thread Gary Ruben
Hi Ariel, You might find the attached function helpful here. Try creating a new colormap using the example in the docstring (you could also try setting high=0.8) - basically this will let you turn down the saturation which will hopefully solve your problem. You may also find the plot option