Hi all,
I've experimented a bit and come up with this:
https://images.hub.yt/u/fido/m/9bbe3cf6-png/
The script:
http://paste.yt-project.org/show/6151/
This was designed with the viscm project, which is awfully cool. What
do folks think? I think Kacper and Nathan also experimented with
viscm and have some ideas too, so maybe we should put it up for an
eventual vote.
Also, I would campaign for calling whatever our new colormap turns out
to be one of these three things, in increasing order of my preference:
agar
kelp
kanten
-Matt
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Matthew Turk
Hi Stuart and everyone else,
This is great info. I appreciate everyone's thoughtful replies.
Having both a sequential colormap (which would replace algae) and a diverging colormap, would be awesome. The Paraview devs shipped the new matplotlib ones (like Inferno) in 5.0. I think it would be a fun experiment to see if we can come up with something sufficiently "branded" or different. And then if we can't, fall back on something like Inferno?
-Matt
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Levy, Stuart A
wrote: There was a fair bit of discussion about colormaps - terrible, useful, beautiful - at IEEE Vis last October. The viridis colormap was a featured one. So was the traditional rainbow, which lots of info-vis and perceptual people piled on to criticize.
Among design criteria for a continuous-valued colormap is whether it's "sequential" (like the typical yt colormap, or viridis) or "diverging". You'd want a diverging colormap to show signed deviations from a norm - where the eye should be caught by places where a value is either much less than, or much more than, something in the middle. Is it worth offering a typical divergent colormap, as well as a new typical sequential one, in yt?
Note that among the Stefan van der Walt & Nathaniel Smith writeup ( http://bids.github.io/colormap/ ) on their development of better cmaps, they use Nathan Goldbaum's galaxy evolution as a test case for six (sequential) examples! => http://vorpus.org/~njs/goldbaum-galaxies-all-colormaps.mkv
A neat web site with sample colormaps - aimed at mapping discrete values on geographic maps, so not directly applicable but cool - is this, by Cynthia Brewer and Mark Harrower at PSU: http://colorbrewer2.org/ It has a library of predesigned cmaps, and lets you sift them by being colorblind-safe, photocopy safe, etc. ________________________________ From: yt-dev [yt-dev-bounces@lists.spacepope.org] on behalf of B.W. Keller [kellerbw@mcmaster.ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 12:13 To: yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org Subject: Re: [yt-dev] Default colormap
There is a really excellent paper on designing color maps called "Color Sequences for Univariate Maps: Theory, Experiments, and Principles" that you can get here: http://ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Ware_1988_CGA_Color_seq...
If we design a new colormap, this would be a good reference along with those scipy resources. I personally would love to have an accessible, yt-custom colormap.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Erik Schnetter
wrote: I think there are several colourmaps that were created when Viridis was invented. I personally like Inferno.
-erik
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Nathan Goldbaum
wrote: I would also be for coming up with our own colormap. That said, I think simply modifying algae won't be enough, since it is too perceptually nonlinear.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:32 AM, John ZuHone
wrote: I would go for modifying algae.
On Jan 6, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Matthew Turk
wrote: Hi folks,
For a long time we've used "algae," which was designed by Britton about eight years ago, as the default colormap. This has been really nice for "branding" yt -- if you see an algae plot, it's probably (not definitely) made with yt. But it's also not accessible from a colorblindness perspective. Stefan van der Walt has been giving some really great talks lately about building a better colormap for matplotlib (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU ) which culminated in viridis, which is shipping in recent versions of matplotlib and will become the default.
In support of this, he built a tool called viscm which can generate reduced versions of colormaps to show what they would be like with varying degrees of insensitivity to color. I've generated outputs from viscm of three of the custom colormaps we ship with yt:
Algae: https://images.hub.yt/u/fido/m/d275d5e1-png/ Cubehelix: https://images.hub.yt/u/fido/m/8e698928-png/ (I believe this is now also shipped with MPL) Kamae: https://images.hub.yt/u/fido/m/e0e40efa-png/
I love algae, but it's not the best from an accessibility perspective.
I'd like to propose that we use a new default colormap. If we do this, I see two options:
* Retain a "branding" by developing a new one either by using the techniques used by matplotlib (or one of the maps they opted not to use) or by modifying algae to be more accessible; looking at the response functions, I suspect it would be reasonably possible to modify it. (Modifying algae is my preference.) * Use viridis (which we may then have to ship if we have older versions of matplotlib to support)
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