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+## Copyright (C) 2007 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## Undocumented internal function.
+
+function retval = __area__ (ax, x, y, bv, varargin)
+  colors = [1, 0, 0; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1; 1, 1, 0; 1, 0, 1; 0, 1, 1];
+  x = [x(1,:) ; x ; x(end,:)];
+  y = cumsum ([[bv, ones(1, size (y, 2) - 1)] ; y ; ...
+	       [bv, ones(1, size (y, 2) - 1)]], 2);
+
+  retval = patch (ax, x(:, 1), y (:, 1), colors (1,:), varargin{:});
+  for i = 2 : size(y, 2)
+    retval = [retval; patch(ax, [x(:,i); flipud(x(:,i))], ...
+			    [y(:, i) ; flipud(y(:, i-1))], colors(i,:),
+			    varargin{:})];
+  endfor
+endfunction