- color
- tidy up the namespace
- Define a "Color" class
- make it easy to convert from one color type to another
`hex ->
RGB`, `RGB -> hex`, `HSV -> RGB` etc.
- improve the construction of a colormap - the dictionary approach
is archaic and overly complex (though incredibly powerful)
- make it possible to interpolate between two or more color types
in different modes, especially useful for construction of
colormaps in HSV space for instance
- cm
- rename the module to something more descriptive - mappables?
Overall, there are a lot of improvements that can be made with
matplotlib color handling - managing backwards compatibility will be
difficult as there are some badly named variables/modules which really
shouldn't exist - but a clear path and message for migration should be
available, with a large amount of focus on this in the API changes
documentation.
