Mixing images and graphs

[reposted from octave-dev@sourceforge]

Hi,
 
The upcoming release of Gnuplot (>4.0) offers new plot styles "with
image" and "with rgbimage". If I understand correctly, this allows
displaying images directly in the gnuplot window, and overlaying them
with graphs.

To me, this is a killer feature that I've used extensively in Matlab,
and that I'm missing badly in octave.

For future octave development, I suggest that graphics be unified by
throwing out image viewers altogether, relying instead on gnuplot for
all image display, and that overlaying plots over images be explicitly
supported in octave.

Justus

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