From graphics-request at octave dot org Mon Sep 26 07:41:06 2005
Subject: Re: Octave plotter for 3D shading plots ?
From: Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics dot muni dot cz>
To: JH <julien dot hillairet at onecert dot fr>
cc: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:40:20 +0200 (CEST)

>> Further, surf(z) from octave-forge should work.
> Yes, it works, but it's pretty awful, green and red faceted plot.

It was working for me after:
global gnuplot_has_pm3d
gnuplot_has_pm3d=1;

> produce a gnuplot 3d figure, witch I can't rotate (my mouse seems doesn't 
> make any effect to gnuplot). However, I try without octave, directly under 
> gnuplot, and it works (I can rotate a figure) !
>
> Is someone could explain me why ? It seems I had a bad install/configuration 
> of octave.

Please read gnuplot FAQ (sec. 5.6), and put "set mouse" to ~/.gnuplot 
or "gset mouse" to ~.octaverc.

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