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I highly recommend this accompanying video, which takes jake's idea and goes into the details of how viridis replaced the ever-naughty Jet.

Colormap selection is surprisingly fascinating.

"A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib (SciPy 2015) Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU



Related: https://bids.github.io/colormap/


Here is also the link to the change as introduced in Matplotlib 3, to put it in reference: https://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html


Really enjoyed that. Thank you! Bit rushed though, need to read more!


This video is excellent. Thanks for sharing it.




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