Jody Klymak

Edits all seem good, I'll put those in. I think 3.10 is completely reasonable, and happy to work on the rest of the chain, but maybe in a few weeks....

If possible, I'd like to get this in before moving on to the next tasks, (fixing the float scaling) and adding a "norm" interpolation_stage. Working off these changes will be...

OK, changed the default from 'antialiased' to 'auto' Also changed *interpolation* default to 'auto' from 'antialiased'. Kept 'antialiased' for back compatibility, but should behave exactly as 'auto'.

Thanks for the help - the is a relatively big change, but hopefully will not cause too much blowback and reduce bug reports for weird under sampled images...

I'd suggest showing what this does with an example either in the GitHub pr description, or ideally in the gallery

#10217 wasn't failing any tests when I merged it. `test_legend.py` didn't fail tests before I merged #10217 So are you sure these were ever called on CI the way you...

I hate the legend test... and I wrote it. I think I'll make a PR that just changes `figure.legend` and `axes.legend` to refer to the kwargs in `legend.Legend`.... @timhoffm, have...

It should return the (sub)figure one level above, which in this case is the root figure.

I will chime in that I am concerned that this is a lot of added code and documentation complexity to the main library for a relatively niche visualization technique. Having...

Have we considered rolling this into the data pipeline overhaul? My biggest concern is that as soon as you start replacing core parts of the library like `ScalarMappable` it requires...