From graphics-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 14 23:17:51 2006
Subject: Re: Handle graphics plotting functions
From: Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail dot com>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>,         octave-graphics <graphics@octave.org>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:15:57 +0200

OK,

The m-files from the octplot distribution (or better yet the octplot
CVS) can serve as the initial repository. I owe you some work on the
minimal set of commands needs to be implemented by the back end (e.g.
set,get,line,axes,figure.patch and more)  which I hope to complete
tonight (i.e. 13 hoursh from now)

Shai

On 2/14/06, Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu> wrote:
> I would be willing to help with this, but I don't know if I'd be able to
> do it all.  I'll start looking through the list to find old message of
> what all handle graphics would need to provide and what has been done.
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:
>
> > I can't promise anything but I might look at working on my plotter this
> > weekend. What I would like is to do the C++ and for someone to pick up the
> > .m side of things, which looks like a match for what you're asking.
> >
> > However, if I do it (and it's not certain yet) I would need this to be a
> > collaboration. I'll implement a C++ function, you try it out and tell me
> > what else it needs, rinse and repeat.
> >
> > How's that sound?
> >
> > Sébastien Loisel
> >
> > On 2/13/06, Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail dot com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> during the development of OctPlot I and others are writing a lot of
> >> high-level plotting functions which are not specific to OctPlot and
> >> could be used in any handle graphics based graphics system (I know of
> >> OctPLot, Oplot and JWE's hyandles for gnuplot).
> >>
> >> These functions are all m-files and depend on the availability of
> >> primitive handle objects such as line, patch and text. For example we
> >> have already implemented pretty good versions of
> >> contour,bar,barh,plot,area,stem. I suggest that in order to avoid
> >> duplication of efforts we set up some repository for these functions.
> >> I am willing to put them in the octplot cvs, but maybe octave-forge or
> >> even octave would be a better place.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions or input would be welcome
> >>
> >> Shai
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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