An OpenGL backend would be a nice project also. I've gathered some experience with glumpy and I can help/mentor but I suspect I'm not familiar enough with all the matplotlib internals to do this alone.
Nicolas On Mar 1, 2012, at 23:12 , Eric Firing wrote: > On 03/01/2012 07:18 AM, John Hunter wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Nick Barnes<n...@climatecode.org> wrote: >> >>> May I ask whether matplotlib is taking part in this year's GSoC? >>> I'm canvassing ideas for the Climate Code Foundation's >>> participation, and some scientists have suggested >>> matplotlib-related improvements (e.g. a GUI tool for constructing >>> and managing segmented colormaps). Some might be specific to >>> climate science, others might be more generally useful to other >>> matplotlib users. In any case, if a student embarked on something >>> like that, they'd need to join the matplotlib development community >>> as well as ours, so I thought I'd drop by and see whether >>> GSoC-sponsored development would be welcome. >> >> They would certainly be welcome. We haven't solicited proposals, but >> we could mentor one to three students who were interested. A colormap >> GUI tool would be welcome, but it doesn't sound like an entire summer >> would be needed, so we might want to bolt on some stuff (like general >> improvements in mpl widgets and events to support design of such a >> tool in native mpl rather than, or in addition to, a UI specific >> tool) >> JDH > > I agree. I would just add that a segmented colormap tool is something > that has occurred to me several times as a good wish-list item, and that > as a physical oceanographer I certainly support expanded use of the > python stack in climate science. > > Eric > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >> Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >> also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
