Re: Adding cubehelix colormap

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

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...