Add support for RGB and RGBA colors to pcolormesh #2182
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Rationale
Matplotlib's
Axes.pcolormesh
allows users to specify three types of data: Scalar data (used together with a color map), RGB data, and RGBA data. Prior to this patch,GeoAxes.pcolormesh
only supported scalar data. This patch adds support and tests for RGB and RGBA data inGeoAxes.pcolormesh
.Implications
Additional visualization options. I made https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/13vq5pg/oc_earths_magnetic_field/ this way.
Improved compatibility with
Axes.pcolormesh
. Compatibility is better but not perfect; wrapping RGB or RGBA data is not supported becauseGeoAxes.pcolormesh
ultimately callsAxes.pcolor
, which does not support RGB or RGBA data.