From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Nov 14 10:13:41 2003
Subject: Re: Image support under windows
From: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
To: "Rinke J. Wijngaarden" <rw at nat dot vu dot nl>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:13:10 +0200

On 14/11/03 04:54, Rinke J. Wijngaarden wrote:
> Is it possible to use the octave image functions (like imagesc) under
> MicrosoftWindows?

I'm not familiar with MS Windows, but basically the image display in GNU
Octave is made by an external application. The default in Linux seems to be
xv (non-free software BTW, what would RMS say if he knew :). 

If you have an image display program which accepts a ppm (or some other
format) file as a command line parameter, then you can just hack the image.m
function to use it.

The best free application for scientific images with large dynamic range I
have found is Imview (http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Hugues.Talbot/imview/), which
also claims to run under Windows. If anyone knows of a better program,
please let me know.

HTH,

Teemu



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