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+## Copyright (C) 2012 Rik Wehbring
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{map} =} lines ()
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{map} =} lines (@var{n})
+## Create color colormap.  This colormap is composed of the list of colors
+## in the current axes "ColorOrder" property.  The default is blue,
+## green, red, cyan, pink, yellow, and gray.
+## The argument @var{n} must be a scalar.
+## If unspecified, the length of the current colormap, or 64, is used.
+## @seealso{colormap}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function map = lines (n)
+
+  if (nargin == 0)
+    n = rows (colormap);
+  elseif (nargin == 1)
+    if (! isscalar (n))
+      error ("lines: argument must be a scalar");
+    endif
+  else
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  c = get (gca, "colororder");
+  nr = rows (c);
+  map = c(rem (0:(n-1), nr) + 1, :);
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!demo
+%! ## Show the 'lines' colormap as an image
+%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat ((1:64)', 1, 64));
+%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy");
+%! colormap (lines (64));
+