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## Display images.
##
## imshow (X) displays an indexed image using the current colormap.
##
## imshow (X, map) displays an indexed image using the specified colormap.
##
## imshow (I, n) displays a gray scale intensity image.
##
## imshow (R, G, B) displays an RGB image.
##
## SEE ALSO: image, imagesc, colormap, gray2ind, rgb2ind.

function imshow (a1, a2, a3)

  ## Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) July 1994.

  if (nargin < 0 || nargin > 3)
    usage ("imshow (args)");
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    if (length (a2) == 1)
      [a1, a2] = gray2ind (a1, a2);
    endif
    colormap (a2);
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    [a1, a2] = rgb2ind (a1, a2, a3);
    colormap (a2);
  endif

  image (a1);

endfunction