Re: Handle graphics plotting functions

Petr Mikulik wrote:

> >> What's missing in gnuplot?
> >
> > Two things come to mind:
> > 1. better way of passing binary data to gnuplot--plotting large data 
> sets and
> > big 3d plots are extremely slow.
>
> gnuplot had always "gnuplot binary" format for (skew) matrices -- but 
> Octave
> didn't used the.
>
> On a similar topic, command
>         tmp> plot(hilb(10))
>
> produces 10 temporary files and asks gnuplot to draw them. Why there 
> is not
> a single file? That would be plotted much faster.
>
> > 2. regular releases--everytime someone complains about a missing 
> feature,
> > we're told that the elusive gnuplot 4.1 has that feature.
>
> My previous letter shows that Octave still does not use gnuplot 4.0 
> features
> (released almost 2 years ago) enough.
>
Octave is a community project, stop bitching and send us the code....

D.



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