Re: Adding cubehelix colormap

[Carnë Draug]

On 30 December 2014 at 14:43, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> it was recently asked on the help mailing list about the cubehelix
>> colormap [1].  I have a cset that adds it to Octave and will push it
>> by the end of the week if no one opposes.
>>
>> The main point against doing so is that it does not exist in Matlab and
>> and adding an extra one "just because", would open the door to everyone
>> wanting to add their favourite colormap (there are many, and people seem
>> to enjoy arguing about them way too much).  An alternative would be a
>> separate package for colormaps only.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Is-the-cubehelix-in-Octave-td4667819.html
>>
>
> Hi Carnë,
>
> If the idea is to keep a consistent policy in core, then I support the
> idea of a package with colormaps. I guess we could somehow merge it
> with real2rgb...

It's not like we previously had people asking to add new colormaps,
it's just that
it may happen in the future. But since no one seems to fear that,
we'll deal with
such problem if it ever arises. I have pushed the cset 5ab6fcf32d1e which adds
this new colormap.

Carnë