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4 <title>Notable Changes in Octave version 3</title> |
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9 <div id="title"><h1>News for Octave Version 3</h1></div> |
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12 <li>Compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better. We now |
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16 <li> You can make a subplot and then use the print function to |
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17 generate file with the plot.</li> |
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19 <li> RGB line colors are supported if you use gnuplot 4.2. Octave |
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20 can still use gnuplot 4.0, but there is no way to set arbitrary |
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21 line colors with it when using the Matlab-style plot functions. |
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22 There never was any way to do this reliably with older versions |
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23 of gnuplot (whether run from Octave or not) since it only |
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27 colors for gnuplot 4.0 are the eight possible combinations of 0 |
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28 and 1 for the R, G and B values. Invalid values are all mapped |
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29 to the same color. |
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31 This also affects patch objects used in the bar, countour, meshc |
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33 monochrome. A workaround for this is to type "colormap gmap40" |
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35 simple bar and contour plots.</li> |
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37 <li> You can control the width of lines using (for example): |
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38 <pre> |
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39 line (x, y, "linewidth", 4, "color", [1, 0, 0.5]); |
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41 (this also shows the color feature).</li> |
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43 <li> With gnuplot 4.2, image data is plotted with gnuplot and may be |
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44 combined with other 2-d plot data.</li> |
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46 <li> Lines for contour plots are generated with an Octave function, so |
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47 contour plots are now 2-d plots instead of special 3-d plots, and |
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48 this allows you to plot additional 2-d data on top of a contour |
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53 supported on the postscript terminals with gnuplot 4.0. Under |
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60 __gnuplot_set__ |
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65 </pre> |
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72 invalid property values may produce unpredictible results.</li> |
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