[Yt-dev] Proposed change of default colormap

John Wise jwise at astro.princeton.edu
Mon Mar 1 17:45:21 PST 2010


I agree with the change, also.  The shade of green reminds me of algae.  Maybe that could be its name?  It's not punchy, but it's short!

John

On 1 Mar 2010, at 20:35, Britton Smith wrote:

> I support this move as well as changing the name.  Something short and punchy.
> 
> Britton
> 
> 2010/2/26 Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to propose we change from "jet" as our default colormap to
> "bds_highcontrast".
> 
> I've attached sample images of the same simulation -- I think
> bds_highcontrast (designed by our very own Britton, nearly two years
> ago now) is better looking and is easier to discern differences in.
> I've provided a patch that should make this change here:
> 
> http://paste.enzotools.org/show/344/
> 
> It applies to trunk.  If this goes through, we'll also make our plots
> slightly better distinguished, too, because this is a homegrown
> colormap.  (We also have the "kamae" colormap, created by Tune Kamae,
> that isn't in matplotlib and that I think is criminally underused
> overall.)
> 
> Also, maybe it should be aliased as something in addition to
> "bds_highcontrast"?  Another name?
> 
> -Matt
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