## Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Kai Habel
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} pcolor (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} pcolor (@var{c})
## Density plot for given matrices @var{x}, and @var{y} from @code{meshgrid} and
## a matrix @var{c} corresponding to the @var{x} and @var{y} coordinates of
## the mesh's vertices.  If @var{x} and @var{y} are vectors, then a typical vertex
## is (@var{x}(j), @var{y}(i), @var{c}(i,j)).  Thus, columns of @var{c}
## correspond to different @var{x} values and rows of @var{c} correspond
## to different @var{y} values.
##
## The @code{colormap} is scaled to the extents of @var{c}.
## Limits may be placed on the color axis by the
## command @code{caxis}, or by setting the @code{clim} property of the
## parent axis.
##
## The face color of each cell of the mesh is determined by interpolating
## the values of @var{c} for the cell's vertices.  Contrast this with 
## @code{imagesc} which renders one cell for each element of @var{c}.
##
## @code{shading} modifies an attribute determining the manner by which the
## face color of each cell is interpolated from the values of @var{c},
## and the visibility of the cells' edges.  By default the attribute is
## "faceted", which renders a single color for each cell's face with the edge
## visible.
##
## @var{h} is the handle to the surface object.
##
## @seealso{caxis, contour, meshgrid, imagesc, shading}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>

function h = pcolor (x, y, c)

  newplot ();

  if (nargin == 1)
    c = x;
    [nr, nc] = size(c);
    z = zeros (nr, nc);
    [x, y] = meshgrid (1:nc, 1:nr);
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    z = zeros (size (c));
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

  tmp = surface (x, y, z, c);

  ax = get (tmp, "parent");

  set (tmp, "facecolor", "flat");
  set (ax, "box", "on");
  
  if (! ishold ())
    set (ax, "view", [0, 90]);
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction
