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| MEP21: color and cm refactor |
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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: |
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| Abstract |
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| * color |
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| * 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 |
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| * cm |
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| * rename the module to something more descriptive - mappables? |
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| 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. |
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| Detailed description |
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| Backward compatibility |
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