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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} imagesc (@var{A}, @var{zoom})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imagesc (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{A}, @var{zoom})
## Display a scaled version of the matrix @var{A} as a color image.  The
## matrix is scaled so that its entries are indices into the current
## colormap.  The scaled matrix is returned.  If @var{zoom} is omitted, a
## comfortable size is chosen.
##
## The axis values corresponding to the matrix elements are specified in
## @var{x} and @var{y}.  At present they are ignored.
## @end deftypefn
## @seealso{image and imshow}

## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
## Created: July 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe

function ret = imagesc (x, y, A, zoom)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 4)
    usage ("imagesc (matrix, zoom) or imagesc (x, y, matrix, zoom)");
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    A = x;
    zoom = [];
    x = y = [];
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    A = x;
    zoom = y;
    x = y = [];
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    zoom = [];
  endif

  ## Rescale values to between 1 and length (colormap) inclusive.
  maxval = max (A (:));
  minval = min (A (:));
  if (maxval == minval)
    B = ones ( size (A) );
  else
    B = round ((A - minval) / (maxval - minval) * (rows (colormap) - 1)) + 1;
  endif

  if ( nargout > 0 )
    ret = B;
  else
    image (x, y, B, zoom);
  endif

endfunction