Jake VanderPlas personal blog
How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
- Points
- 133
- HN comments
- 22
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 5 commenters
Databases & DataDesign & UX2019
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2019 | How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014) by kristianp | 133 | 22 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 7 Hacker News comments by 5 different people, from Aug 2018 to Jun 2023.
Most recent:
- LordDragonfang · Jun 15, 2023
- LordDragonfang · Dec 30, 2022
- vlmutolo · Jul 6, 2021
- vlmutolo · Jun 29, 2021
- hprotagonist · Jun 29, 2021
- joshvm · Sep 6, 2020
