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| MEP21: color and cm refactor | |
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| Status | |
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| - **Discussion**: This MEP has not commenced yet, but here are some | |
| ongoing ideas which may become a part of this MEP: | |
| Branches and Pull requests | |
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| Abstract | |
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| * color | |
| * tidy up the namespace | |
| * Define a "Color" class | |
| * make it easy to convert from one color type to another ```hex -> | |
| RGB```, ```RGB -> hex```, ```HSV -> RGB``` etc. | |
| * improve the construction of a colormap - the dictionary approach | |
| is archaic and overly complex (though incredibly powerful) | |
| * make it possible to interpolate between two or more color types | |
| in different modes, especially useful for construction of | |
| colormaps in HSV space for instance | |
| * cm | |
| * rename the module to something more descriptive - mappables? | |
| Overall, there are a lot of improvements that can be made with | |
| matplotlib color handling - managing backwards compatibility will be | |
| difficult as there are some badly named variables/modules which really | |
| shouldn't exist - but a clear path and message for migration should be | |
| available, with a large amount of focus on this in the API changes | |
| documentation. | |
| Detailed description | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Backward compatibility | |
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| Alternatives | |
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