Implement color cycle

[Datseris]

One of the amazing things of PyPlot is the existence of a default "color cycle".

In makie:

plot(rand(10), rand(10))
plot!(rand(10), rand(10))
plot!(rand(10), rand(10))
plot!(rand(10), rand(10))

produces 4 lines with black color, while in PyPlot each line that is not given a color explicitly, gets one from the default color cycle and advances the cycler timer by one.

This timer must be an attribute of the current axis one plots on.

[mkborregaard]

👍 GR, PlotlyJS and Plots also do that. The colors should come from a palette set by the theme IMHO.

[SimonDanisch]

Yeah, there is a pretty simple way to implement that, which I disliked and got rid of :D
I planned to recover it as part of the series recipe!

[mschauer]

Putting this into a recipe is great!

[mkborregaard]

JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl#37

[lhupe]

Any updates on this issue? This is a major reason for me to stay with Plots for now — if I plot tens of data series, I don't want to have to assign colors by hand.
As far as I can tell, JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl#37 doesn't work anymore (at least for me, copy-and-pasting the example to a clean REPL produced a gray blob) and there is no mention of color cycles in the docs.

[SimonDanisch]

This has been implemented: https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/documentation/theming/index.html#cycles