Added perceptually uniform fire colormap #943
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The "hot" colormap that is the default for Image and other Raster types in Holoviews is highly perceptually nonuniform, which makes strange artifacts and makes it difficult to interpret data:
On my request, Peter Kovesi created a much better version he called linear_kryw_0_100_c71 (see http://peterkovesi.com/projects/colourmaps):
The new colormap (left) gives much smoother images that more faithfully represent the data:
This PR adds the new colormap, renamed "fire" for simplicity and to indicate the similarity to "hot". A subsequent PR should change the default colormap to "fire".