From graphics-request at octave dot org Wed Feb 22 03:57:39 2006
Subject: Re: imshow.m
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: graphics at octave dot org
CC: octave graphics <graphics at octave dot org>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:04:56 -0600

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> John, attached is a short patch to restore the colormap after using 
> imshow().  If the colormap changes using imshow(R,G,B), then future use 
> of image(A) is messed up.

I've been informed that other programs like Octave behave this way.  But that doesn't mean Octave doesn't have to operate the right way.  Why should the global color map change unless I type "colormap(ocean(64))" or some such?

Dan