Colormap choice guidelines in documentation - based on talk at SciPy 2014

[kthyng]

Finally got something together for colormaps documentation, @tacaswell and @dmcdougall!

[mwaskom]

Just dropping in to say that this looks fantastic!

[tacaswell]

Would it be possible to get the figures too?

[kthyng]

@tacaswell Ah, I forgot to include the scripts before. Oops! They are there now and the build has passed. How is it now?

[tacaswell]

Great! This builds cleanly with the figures on my system. I am going to go ahead and merge this, we can always fine-tune the prose later.

[kthyng]

Awesome! Yep changes are fine. I just wanted to get it out.

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Great! This builds cleanly with the figures on my system. I am going to go
ahead and merge this, we can always fine-tune the prose later.

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[dmcdougall]

@kthyng Congratulations, you're now a contributor!

[NelleV]

I'm very happy to see this in. I've been struggling to understand a plot from a paper this morning, and it turns out the gray scale printed version I was looking at was very misleading (jet colormap!).

[kthyng]

@dmcdougall Thanks! I knew something felt different...

@NelleV Jet strikes again! I hope this stuff can help some people along the way.

[WeatherGod]

My advisors one time wondered why it was so "difficult" for me to create a
grayscale version of my radar images for a publication (it was going to be
color version for the electronic copy, but grayscale for the print copy).
"Just run the color version through Photoshop!"

Sigh...

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@dmcdougall https://github.com/dmcdougall Thanks! I knew something felt
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@NelleV https://github.com/NelleV Jet strikes again! I hope this stuff
can help some people along the way.

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[dmcdougall]

@WeatherGod 85a26dc

:)

[j9ac9k]

@kthyng Just wanted to post and relay a huge thank you for creating these docs. My use case was a bit different (not plotting inside matplotlib, but I have access to matplotlib colormap objects) and your talks got me 90% of the way done, thank you so much!!!

[kthyng]

Awesome! Glad to help.