<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Nathaniel Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:njs@pobox.com" target="_blank">njs@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Though in some sense I suppose one has lost as soon as one is trying</span><br></div></div>
to use the Colormap interface's float -> color semantics for a<br>
discrete map</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree -- I think a discrete set of colors is fundamentally different than a (logically at least) continuous colormap -- we should simply keep them separate.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- the seaborn "palette" concept is in some ways closer<br>
to what we'd want for qualitative colormaps.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yup.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
</div></div>