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comet.m: Speed up animation by using low-level graphic commands. * scripts/plot/comet.m: Speed up animation by using low-level graphic commands.
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2013 Mike Miller
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} waterfall (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} waterfall (@var{z})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} waterfall (@dots{}, @var{c})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} waterfall (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val}, @dots{})
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24 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} waterfall (@var{hax}, @dots{})
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25 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} waterfall (@dots{})
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26 ## Plot a 3-D waterfall plot.
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27 ##
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28 ## A waterfall plot is similar to a @code{meshz} plot except only
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29 ## mesh lines for the rows of @var{z} (x-values) are shown.
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30 ##
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31 ## The wireframe mesh is plotted using rectangles. The vertices of the
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32 ## rectangles [@var{x}, @var{y}] are typically the output of @code{meshgrid}.
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33 ## over a 2-D rectangular region in the x-y plane. @var{z} determines the
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34 ## height above the plane of each vertex. If only a single @var{z} matrix is
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35 ## given, then it is plotted over the meshgrid
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36 ## @code{@var{x} = 1:columns (@var{z}), @var{y} = 1:rows (@var{z})}.
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37 ## Thus, columns of @var{z} correspond to different @var{x} values and rows
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38 ## of @var{z} correspond to different @var{y} values.
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39 ##
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40 ## The color of the mesh is computed by linearly scaling the @var{Z} values
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41 ## to fit the range of the current colormap. Use @code{caxis} and/or
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42 ## change the colormap to control the appearance.
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43 ##
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44 ## Optionally the color of the mesh can be specified independently of @var{z}
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45 ## by supplying a color matrix, @var{c}.
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46 ##
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47 ## Any property/value pairs are passed directly to the underlying surface
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48 ## object.
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49 ##
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50 ## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
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51 ## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
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53 ## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created
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54 ## surface object.
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55 ##
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56 ## @seealso{meshz, mesh, meshc, contour, surf, surface, ribbon, meshgrid, hidden, shading, colormap, caxis}
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57 ## @end deftypefn
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59 ## Author: Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>
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61 function h = waterfall (varargin)
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63 htmp = meshz (varargin{:});
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65 set (htmp, "meshstyle", "row");
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67 ## The gnuplot toolkit does nothing with the meshstyle property currently.
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68 toolkit = get (ancestor (htmp, "figure"), "__graphics_toolkit__");
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69 if (strcmp (toolkit, "gnuplot"))
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70 warning ("waterfall: may not render correctly using toolkit '%s'", toolkit);
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71 endif
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73 if (nargout > 0)
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74 h = htmp;
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75 endif
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77 endfunction
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80 %!demo
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81 %! clf;
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82 %! colormap ('default');
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83 %! Z = peaks ();
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84 %! waterfall (Z);
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