From help-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 12 22:52:28 2006
Subject: Re: subplot
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
To: wang Juefu <wangjuefu at yahoo dot com>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:50:10 -0700

On 1/12/06, wang Juefu <wangjuefu at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Does any one know how to include imagesc in subplot as
> Matlab?
>
> In matlab, it is easy to combine image and graphs in
> subplots. For example
>
> data=rand(100,100);
>
> x=0:0.1:pi*2;
>
> subplot(1,2,1); imagesc(data);
> subplot(1,2,2); plot(sin(x));
>
> This will plot two figures together.
>
> However, the above will not work in Octave.
>

Historically, gnuplot could not handle images (it has changed just recently).
As a result octave had to use different program to display them.
So, no, currently you cannot combine images and plots
in octave easily. You may want to look at http://www.epstk.de/
for similar capabilities.

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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