[Paraview-developers] Changing ColorMaps.xml format

[David Thompson]

Hi Utkarsh,

> I am looking at adding tracing support for loading color map presets.
> When doing that,
> I am also looking at extending the "presets" mechanism to support
> saving/loading opacity transfer function (along with color) and other
> things that may be important in preset. ...

I am all for moving to JSON.

1. It would be nice to make "RGBPoints" an array of arrays rather than a flat array (for legibility and possibly to distinguish between 3-component RGB and 4-component RGBA).

2. Just making sure: you plan to continue supporting categorical values, so {"IndexedLookup": true} will work? (I do not see it in the example, but since the default would be false...)

3. The format of "Annotations" in your example is easy for a machine to parse but hard for a person. I don't object to it, but if the point is to let humans edit colormaps, may this would be better:

  {
  "Annotations" : [
    {"value": "100", "label": "some"},
    ...
    {"value": "500", "label": "more"}
   ]
  }


	David