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## Undocumented internal function.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __img__ (@var{img})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} __img__ (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{img})
## Generic image creation.
##
## The axis values corresponding to the matrix elements are specified in
## @var{x} and @var{y}. If you're not using gnuplot 4.2 or later, these
## variables are ignored.
## @end deftypefn

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

function h = __img__ (x, y, img, varargin)

  newplot ();

  if (isempty (img))
    error ("__img__: matrix is empty");
  endif

  if (isempty (x))
    x = [1, columns(img)];
  endif

  if (isempty (y))
    y = [1, rows(img)];
  endif

  xlim = [x(1), x(end)];
  ylim = [y(1), y(end)];

  ca = gca ();

  tmp = __go_image__ (ca, "cdata", img, "xdata", xlim, "ydata", ylim, 
		      "cdatamapping", "direct", varargin {:});

  if (ndims (img) == 3)
    if (isinteger (img))
      c = class (img);
      mn = intmin (c);
      mx = intmax (c);
      set (ca, "clim", double ([mn, mx]));
    endif
  endif

  set (ca, "view", [0, 90]);

  if (strcmp (get (ca, "nextplot"), "replace"))
    set (ca, "ydir", "reverse");
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction