[yt-dev] [yt-users] POLL: A New Default Colormap

Tue Mar 1 13:23:39 PST 2016

Hi Nathan,

I like it, and I like the name even if it is a tad less pronounceable.
:)  If nobody objects, I'll update my colormap bookmark with this
change.

-Matt

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tweaked the colormap I proposed a bit so it looks less like viridis:
>
> http://imgur.com/dAFywTw
>
> Colormap script here:
>
> http://paste.yt-project.org/show/6282/
>
> Compared to viridis and the old version, the bottom of the colormap is a bit
> brighter (less purple, more red), and the middle emphasizes blue colors a
> bit more than green colors.
>
> I like the name 'arbre' for this colormap.
>
> Does anyone hate the modifications I've made?
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The results are in!  We had 54 responses.
>>
>> First choice:
>>
>> CMAP1: 5 (9.3%)
>> CMAP2: 29 (53.7%)
>> CMAP3: 5 (9.3%)
>> CMAP4: 15 (27.8%)
>>
>> Second choice:
>>
>> CMAP1: 11 (20.8%)
>> CMAP2: 6 (11.3%)
>> CMAP3: 9 (17%)
>> CMAP4: 27 (50.9%)
>>
>> Since CMAP1 got a majority, we don't need to go to instant runoff, but it
>> looks like CMAP4 is the second choice.  There were a number of comments left
>> with the survey, available here:
>> http://paste.yt-project.org/show/L28LFgbcV8F1SNlyZxwi/
>>
>> Cameron and Nathan both asked to update their cmaps slightly to respond to
>> comments, but I think we can include all four.  Once the updated versions of
>> CMAP2 and CMAP4 are in, I'll issue a PR that includes the following things:
>>
>>  * The new colormaps added into our available maps
>>  * The default colormap made into a configuration variable, with its
>> setting set to the CMAP2 name by default
>>  * Removing the matplotlib.rc() call that changes the cmap globally for
>> all image plots
>>  * All internal-to-yt imshow and whatnot calls specifically set to using
>> the config value for the default colormap
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Jill Naiman <jnaiman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1!!!!!!!!! :)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was going to push for colormap #1 to be octarine, but I think #3 would
>>>> make a good hypnotoad.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Michael Zingale
>>>> <michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> can one of the alt colormaps be named hypnotoad?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathan Goldbaum
>>>>> <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also if you really like one of these but we don't end up choosing it
>>>>>> as a default, I believe we're planning on giving them all clever names
>>>>>> and including them in yt 3.3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi folks,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > The current default colormap that yt uses is called "Algae," and
>>>>>> > it's been
>>>>>> > with us for a while.  Recently some of us on the yt-dev mailing list
>>>>>> > (which
>>>>>> > is open to join!) have begun to look at alternate colormaps that
>>>>>> > have better
>>>>>> > characteristics, particularly from an accessibility perspective.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > If you have the time, it would be really, *really* helpful if you
>>>>>> > could take
>>>>>> > this anonymous, two question (only one of which is mandatory!) poll
>>>>>> > about
>>>>>> > which of the four candidates we've come up with you like the best.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > http://goo.gl/forms/D4qQqkPIMq
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks very much!  The poll will be open at least a week, and I'll
>>>>>> > report
>>>>>> > back the results here sometime after that.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > -Matt
>>>>>> >
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