Avoid the ambiguous term "color map"
Instead, use
- "heat map" for plots of color-coded z vs Cartesian x,y;
- "color scheme" for a color coding (called "color gradient" in Matplotlib)
- "color legend" for a bar that shows color vs z
References:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.1902
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ContourPlot.html confounds true contour maps and heat maps, which is not helpful
Change terminology in:
- GUI
- Documentation
- Python API and example scripts (including comments)