changeset 8543:fda06702bf71

hsv.m: doc fix
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:57:18 -0500
parents ef2dfe33e5b5
children c0d71b4deeb7
files scripts/ChangeLog scripts/image/hsv.m
diffstat 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Tue Jan 20 10:52:34 2009 -0500
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Tue Jan 20 10:57:18 2009 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2009-01-20  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
+	* image/hsv.m: Doc fix from Francesco Potorti` <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>.
+
 	* testfun/assert.m: Use isfield instead of struct_contains.
 
 2009-01-17 Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com>
--- a/scripts/image/hsv.m	Tue Jan 20 10:52:34 2009 -0500
+++ b/scripts/image/hsv.m	Tue Jan 20 10:57:18 2009 -0500
@@ -18,9 +18,14 @@
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} hsv (@var{n})
-## Create color colormap. This colormap is red through yellow, green, cyan,
-## blue, magenta to red. The argument @var{n} should be a scalar.  If it
-## is omitted, the length of the current colormap or 64 is assumed.
+## Create color colormap.  This colormap is red through yellow, green,
+## cyan, blue, magenta to red.  It is obtained by linearly varying the
+## hue through all possible values while keeping constant maximum
+## saturation and value and is equivalent to
+## @code{hsv2rgb ([linspace(0,1,N)', ones(N,2)])}.
+##
+## The argument @var{n} should be a scalar.  If it is omitted, the
+## length of the current colormap or 64 is assumed.
 ## @seealso{colormap}
 ## @end deftypefn