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Re: Understanding Color in IDL [message #50544 is a reply to message #50543]

Wed, 11 October 2006 12:24

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD Smith writes:

> Every time I interact with new IDL users, even very savvy, technically
> inclined users, the number one initial stumbling block relates to
> colors, usually DECOMPOSED issues. I think ITTVIS should take a hard
> look at their default color model, and ask themselves whether it's
> satisfying the largest number of users. Yes, once you learn the magic
> tricks, you are fine, but first impressions are everything, and the
> first impression many of my colleagues have of IDL is that it is buggy
> and can't display images very well.

I guess we could argue about what would "satisfy the
largest number of users", but I have a feeling the iTools
crowd (and I'm not saying that tongue in cheek) and even
the folks like me, who LOVE 24-bit color and couldn't
live without it now that I've built enough tools to deal
with it, would get the shaft. In my experience, 80-90%
of the IDL users still use the indexed color model for
most of their programming needs.

I'd be satisfied with the way it is now (since we finally
have most of the UNIX folks able to see *something* other
than red on black plots!) if we just didn't have to write
our programs differently to send then to a PostScript file
or printer. :-(

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Understanding Color in IDL By: K. Bowman on Wed, 11 October 2006 12:37
		Re: Understanding Color in IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 October 2006 12:24
		Re: Understanding Color in IDL By: JD Smith on Wed, 11 October 2006 11:54
		Re: Understanding Color in IDL By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 12 October 2006 01:50
		Re: Understanding Color in IDL By: JD Smith on Wed, 11 October 2006 14:14

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