Any plans to change the defaults in matplotlibrc

isaac.gerg · January 5, 2016, 10:31pm

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults in
matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very suitable
and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac
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juichenieder-nabb · January 6, 2016, 2:13am

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose of
changing rcParam defaults, see http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html
for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

···

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults
in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very
suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 6, 2016, 2:26am

Where is the new rcparams?

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose of
changing rcParam defaults, see http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html
for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults in
matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very suitable
and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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juichenieder-nabb · January 6, 2016, 3:08am

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state of
things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but
others can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I
guess even better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github,
so that we can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as
a copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes
would end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that
doesn't look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

···

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf > <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk>> > wrote:

    Hi Isaac,
    As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole
    purpose of changing rcParam defaults, see
    http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

    Best,
    OceanWolf

    On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

    Hi,

    I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the
    defaults in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file
    that I find very suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

    Isaac

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mdroettboom · January 6, 2016, 1:53pm

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a matplotlibrc
that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit it as a
style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it easy for
users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very carefully
designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most common cases",
individual styles do not and can be more aggressively different.

Mike

···

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state of
things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> > wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose of
changing rcParam defaults, see <http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults in
matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very suitable
and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 6, 2016, 3:56pm

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so far.

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am updating my
rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp whereby a
user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a set of
plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to chime
in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to simple
plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of those
features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam Davidson's)

Isaac

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom <mdroettboom at continuum.io > wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a matplotlibrc
that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit it as a
style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it easy for
users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very carefully
designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most common cases",
individual styles do not and can be more aggressively different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> > wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state of
things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose of
changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults in
matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very suitable
and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 6, 2016, 3:57pm

To add, I should also say you could just paste a URL and it downloads the
rc file and shows the plots. Matplotlib makes this easy!

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so far.

GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am updating
my rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp whereby
a user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a set of
plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to chime
in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to simple
plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of
those features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam
Davidson's)

Isaac

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom < > mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a matplotlibrc
that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit it as a
style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it easy for
users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very carefully
designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most common cases",
individual styles do not and can be more aggressively different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk >> > wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state of
things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk >>> > wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose of
changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults
in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very
suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 6, 2016, 4:21pm

I've started work on a test script for matplotlibrc files.

Its here: GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

Its my plan to continue to update this along with my rc file as I go along
my day.

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

To add, I should also say you could just paste a URL and it downloads the
rc file and shows the plots. Matplotlib makes this easy!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> > wrote:

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so
far.

GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am updating
my rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp whereby
a user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a set of
plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to chime
in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to simple
plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of
those features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam
Davidson's)

Isaac

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom < >> mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a matplotlibrc
that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit it as a
style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it easy for
users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very carefully
designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most common cases",
individual styles do not and can be more aggressively different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf < >>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state
of things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf < >>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose
of changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults
in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very
suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 6, 2016, 8:46pm

Is there any way to change the way the autoscale function from rcparams?
For my plot(x,y)'s there is too much space on the left and right of my line
plots.

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

I've started work on a test script for matplotlibrc files.

Its here: GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

Its my plan to continue to update this along with my rc file as I go along
my day.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> > wrote:

To add, I should also say you could just paste a URL and it downloads the
rc file and shows the plots. Matplotlib makes this easy!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >> wrote:

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so
far.

GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am updating
my rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp
whereby a user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a
set of plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to
chime in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to
simple plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of
those features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam
Davidson's)

Isaac

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom < >>> mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a matplotlibrc
that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit it as a
style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it easy for
users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very carefully
designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most common cases",
individual styles do not and can be more aggressively different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf < >>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state
of things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf < >>>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose
of changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the defaults
in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find very
suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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mdroettboom · January 7, 2016, 8:19pm

The new defaults with 2.0 is to add a fixed amount of visual padding on all
sides. The amount of padding can be controlled with axes.xmargin and
axes.ymargin.

Prior to 2.0, the default behavior was to move to ?round numbers?, which is
a lot less predictable.

In either case, the algorithm used to autoscale can be replaced by
replacing the locator. See the ticker docs.

Mike
?

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

Is there any way to change the way the autoscale function from rcparams?
For my plot(x,y)'s there is too much space on the left and right of my line
plots.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> > wrote:

I've started work on a test script for matplotlibrc files.

Its here: GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

Its my plan to continue to update this along with my rc file as I go
along my day.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >> wrote:

To add, I should also say you could just paste a URL and it downloads
the rc file and shows the plots. Matplotlib makes this easy!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >>> wrote:

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so
far.

GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am
updating my rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp
whereby a user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a
set of plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to
chime in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to
simple plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of
those features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam
Davidson's)

Isaac

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom < >>>> mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a
matplotlibrc that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit
it as a style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it
easy for users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very
carefully designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most
common cases", individual styles do not and can be more aggressively
different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf < >>>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current state
of things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans at the
moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but others
can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess even
better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that we
can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf < >>>>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole purpose
of changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the
defaults in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find
very suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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isaac.gerg · January 7, 2016, 8:31pm

This is great. Stoked about the new updates in 2.0!

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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroettboom at continuum.io > wrote:

The new defaults with 2.0 is to add a fixed amount of visual padding on
all sides. The amount of padding can be controlled with axes.xmargin and
axes.ymargin.

Prior to 2.0, the default behavior was to move to ?round numbers?, which
is a lot less predictable.

In either case, the algorithm used to autoscale can be replaced by
replacing the locator. See the ticker docs.

Mike
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> wrote:

Is there any way to change the way the autoscale function from rcparams?
For my plot(x,y)'s there is too much space on the left and right of my line
plots.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >> wrote:

I've started work on a test script for matplotlibrc files.

Its here: GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

Its my plan to continue to update this along with my rc file as I go
along my day.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >>> wrote:

To add, I should also say you could just paste a URL and it downloads
the rc file and shows the plots. Matplotlib makes this easy!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaac Gerg <isaac.gerg at gergltd.com> >>>> wrote:

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I am still perfecting my rc file but am happy to share what I have so
far.

GitHub - isaacgerg/matplotlibrc

I did a research project a few years ago on color theory and am
updating my rc file based on my findings.

Additionally, it would be really cool to have some kind of webapp
whereby a user uploads their matplotlibrc file and the server generates a
set of plots based on it. I'm happy to take a whack at it if folks want to
chime in and email me some example plots to render. I would keep it to
simple plots to start.

I am aware of the plotornot "experiment" and also have rolled some of
those features into my rc file as well (its very based off of Cam
Davidson's)

Isaac

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Michael Droettboom < >>>>> mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:

The omnibus PR containing most of the style changes for 2.x is here:

Style changes omnibus PR by mdboom · Pull Request #5774 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

This isn't everything -- some changes are already in 2.x and master.
Others are in separate PRs with 2.0 as a milestone.

The new changes are being made against 2.x and are forward-ported to
master.

Also, to answer Isaac's original suggestion: if you have a
matplotlibrc that you think would be useful for others, feel free to submit
it as a style. Since 1.4, we've had a style infrastructure that makes it
easy for users to switch styles. While the default style has to be very
carefully designed so as to provide "reasonable behavior for the most
common cases", individual styles do not and can be more aggressively
different.

Mike

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:08 PM, OceanWolf < >>>>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Good question... I have gotten a bit out touch with the current
state of things so I defer to others. As far as I know the current plans
at the moment only include changes to the default colormap to viridis, but
others can get changed as well. feel free to post a link here, or (I guess
even better), make an issue/or PR (changing rcsetup.py) on github, so that
we can take it into consideration for 2.0.

Looking at the state of the branches on github I have gotten a bit
confused with the strategy... now we have 1.5 released and 2.0 marked as a
copy of 1.5.x bar rc changes, I would have assumed the new rc changes would
end up in master and then backported to the v2.x branch, but that doesn't
look like the case... can someone clarify that for me?

Best,
OceanWolf

On 06/01/16 03:26, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Where is the new rcparams?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:13 PM, OceanWolf < >>>>>>> juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Isaac,
As it happens, yes, in the upcoming 2.0 release has the sole
purpose of changing rcParam defaults, see
<http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html>
http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html for more information.

Best,
OceanWolf

On 05/01/16 23:31, Isaac Gerg wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to change some of the
defaults in matplotlibrc. I have created a matplotlibrc file that I find
very suitable and wondering if its worth sharing here.

Isaac

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