[Yt-dev] Proposed change of default colormap

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 19:02:40 PST 2010


I like algae a lot.  Committed!

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, John Wise <jwise at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
> 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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