<spanid="color-changes"></span><h1>Default Color changes<aclass="headerlink" href="#default-color-changes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>As discussed at length elsewhere [insert links], <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">jet</span></code> is an
empirically bad color map and should not be the default color map.
Due to the position that changing the appearance of the plot breaks
backward compatibility, this change has been put off for far longer
than it should have been. In addition to changing the default color
map we plan to take the chance to change the default color-cycle on
plots and to adopt a different color map for filled plots (<codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">imshow</span></code>,
<codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">pcolor</span></code>, <codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">contourf</span></code>, etc) and for scatter like plots.</p>
<spanclass="n">area</span><spanclass="o">=</span><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">pi</span><spanclass="o">*</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="mi">15</span><spanclass="o">*</span><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">random</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">rand</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="n">N</span><spanclass="p">))</span><spanclass="o">**</span><spanclass="mi">2</span><spanclass="c1"># 0 to 15 point radiuses</span>