## Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Kai Habel
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{map} =} autumn ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{map} =} autumn (@var{n})
## Create color colormap.  This colormap ranges from red through orange
## to yellow.
## The argument @var{n} must be a scalar.
## If unspecified, the length of the current colormap, or 64, is used.
## @seealso{colormap}
## @end deftypefn

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

function map = autumn (n)

  if (nargin == 0)
    n = rows (colormap);
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    if (! isscalar (n))
      error ("autumn: argument must be a scalar");
    endif
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (n == 1)
    map = [1, 0, 0];
  elseif (n > 1)
    r = ones (n, 1);
    g = (0:n - 1)' ./ (n - 1);
    b = zeros (n, 1);
    map = [r, g, b];
  else
    map = [];
  endif

endfunction

%!demo
%! ## Show the 'autumn' colormap as an image
%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat (1:64, 64, 1)')
%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy")
%! colormap (autumn (64))