## Copyright (C) 2007 Kai Habel
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File}  ribbon (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{width})
## @deftypefnx {Function File}  ribbon (@var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File}  @var{h} = ribbon (@dots{})
## Plot a ribbon plot for the columns of @var{y} vs. @var{x}. The
## optional parameter @var{width} specifies the width of a single ribbon
## (default is 0.75).  If @var{x} is omitted, a vector containing the
## row numbers is assumed (1:rows(Y)).  If requested, return a vector
## @var{h} of the handles to the surface objects.
## @seealso{gca, colorbar}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel at gmx.de>

function h = ribbon (X, Y, W)

  newplot ();

  if (nargin == 1)
    Y = X;
    if (isvector (Y))
      Y = Y(:);
    endif
    [nr, nc] = size (Y);
    X = repmat ((1:nr)', 1, nc);
    W = 0.75;
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    W = 0.75;
  elseif (nargin != 3)
    print_usage ();
  end

  if (isvector (X) && isvector (Y))
    if (length (X) != length (Y))
      error ("ribbon: in case of vectors, X and Y must have same length")
    else
      [X, Y] = meshgrid (X, Y);
    endif
  else
    if (! all (size (X) == size (Y)))
      error ("ribbon: in case of matrices, X and Y must have same size")
    endif
  endif

  [nr, nc] = size (Y);
  tmp = zeros (1, nc);

  for c = nc:-1:1
    ZZ = [Y(:,c), Y(:,c)];
    y = X(:,c);
    x = [c - W / 2, c + W / 2];
    [XX, YY] = meshgrid (x, y);
    CC = ones (size (ZZ)) * c;
    tmp(c) = surface (XX, YY, ZZ, CC);
  endfor

  ax = get (tmp(c), "parent");

  if (! ishold ())
    set (ax, "view", [-37.5, 30], "box", "off", "xgrid", "on",
	 "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction