## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Kai Habel
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} pcolor (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} pcolor (@var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} pcolor (@var{hax}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} pcolor (@dots{})
## Produce a 2-D density plot.
##
## A @code{pcolor} plot draws rectangles with colors from the matrix @var{c}
## over the two-dimensional region represented by the matrices @var{x} and
## @var{y}.  @var{x} and @var{y} are the coordinates of the mesh's vertices
## and are typically the output of @code{meshgrid}.  If @var{x} and @var{y} are
## vectors, then a typical vertex is (@var{x}(j), @var{y}(i), @var{c}(i,j)).
## Thus, columns of @var{c} correspond to different @var{x} values and rows
## of @var{c} correspond to different @var{y} values.
##
## The values in @var{c} are scaled to span the range of the current
## colormap.  Limits may be placed on the color axis by the command
## @code{caxis}, or by setting the @code{clim} property of the parent axis.
##
## The face color of each cell of the mesh is determined by interpolating
## the values of @var{c} for each of the cell's vertices; Contrast this with
## @code{imagesc} which renders one cell for each element of @var{c}.
##
## @code{shading} modifies an attribute determining the manner by which the
## face color of each cell is interpolated from the values of @var{c},
## and the visibility of the cells' edges.  By default the attribute is
## "faceted", which renders a single color for each cell's face with the edge
## visible.
##
## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
##
## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created
## surface object.
##
## @seealso{caxis, shading, meshgrid, contour, imagesc}
## @end deftypefn

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

function h = pcolor (varargin)

  [hax, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("pcolor", varargin{:});

  if (nargin == 1)
    c = varargin{1};
    [nr, nc] = size (c);
    [x, y] = meshgrid (1:nc, 1:nr);
    z = zeros (nr, nc);
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    x = varargin{1};
    y = varargin{2};
    c = varargin{3};
    z = zeros (size (c));
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

  oldfig = ifelse (isempty (hax), [], get (0, "currentfigure"));
  unwind_protect
    hax = newplot (hax);
    htmp = surface (x, y, z, c);

    set (htmp, "facecolor", "flat");
    set (hax, "box", "on");

    if (! ishold ())
      set (hax, "view", [0, 90]);
    endif

  unwind_protect_cleanup
    if (! isempty (oldfig))
      set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);
    endif
  end_unwind_protect

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = htmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! clf;
%! colormap ('default');
%! Z = peaks ();
%! pcolor (Z);

%!demo
%! clf;
%! colormap ('default');
%! [X,Y,Z] = sombrero ();
%! [Fx,Fy] = gradient (Z);
%! pcolor (X,Y,Fx+Fy);
%! shading interp;
%! axis tight;