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magpylib / magpylib

Python package for computation of magnetic fields of magnets, currents and moments.
https://magpylib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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choice of color #809

Open OrtnerMichael opened 1 month ago

OrtnerMichael commented 1 month ago

Grün-Rot ist eigentlich eine sehr unglückliche Wahl der Farben da 10% der Menscheit an einer Rot-Grün Sehschwäche leidet.

The misuse of colour in science communication https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7 https://www.kennethmoreland.com/color-advice/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02696-z https://www.ascb.org/science-news/how-to-make-scientific-figures-accessible-to-readers-with-color-blindness/

While DS 91479 will remain with RED-GREEN, we should consider what should become the magpylib default. We will not be able to abide by DINS SPEC default because there symbols will be used to annotate zones.

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We could instead offer several named default styles e.g. to get the din-spec default style

style_color="red_green3"

or "red_blue2" or "red_blue3"

fslanovc commented 1 month ago

Please also add the corresponding colorbars to magpylib, so that the side view for instance can also be used in custom plots. For instance: magpy.cm.get_cmap("red_green3") could return a matplotlib colormap similar to e.g. mpl.cm.get_cmap("PiYG") that can return the rgb-colorcode for given parameter 0<=x<=1.