How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)

Re:How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by hprotagonist on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:22PM (#19649587)

I highly recommend this accompanying video, which takes jake's idea and goes into the details of how viridis replaced the ever-naughty Jet.

Colormap selection is surprisingly fascinating.

"A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib (SciPy 2015) Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

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Re:How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by jey on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:41PM (#19649690)

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Re:How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by ktpsns on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:24PM (#19649927)

Here is also the link to the change as introduced in Matplotlib 3, to put it in reference: https://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html

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Re:How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by aidos on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:26PM (#19649940)

Really enjoyed that. Thank you! Bit rushed though, need to read more!

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Re:How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by tptacek on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:22PM (#19649919)

This video is excellent. Thanks for sharing it.

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