Re: Handle graphics plotting functions

I would be willing to help with this, but I don't know if I'd be able to 
do it all.  I'll start looking through the list to find old message of 
what all handle graphics would need to provide and what has been done.

Bill

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

> I can't promise anything but I might look at working on my plotter this
> weekend. What I would like is to do the C++ and for someone to pick up the
> .m side of things, which looks like a match for what you're asking.
>
> However, if I do it (and it's not certain yet) I would need this to be a
> collaboration. I'll implement a C++ function, you try it out and tell me
> what else it needs, rinse and repeat.
>
> How's that sound?
>
> Sébastien Loisel
>
> On 2/13/06, Shai Ayal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> during the development of OctPlot I and others are writing a lot of
>> high-level plotting functions which are not specific to OctPlot and
>> could be used in any handle graphics based graphics system (I know of
>> OctPLot, Oplot and JWE's hyandles for gnuplot).
>>
>> These functions are all m-files and depend on the availability of
>> primitive handle objects such as line, patch and text. For example we
>> have already implemented pretty good versions of
>> contour,bar,barh,plot,area,stem. I suggest that in order to avoid
>> duplication of efforts we set up some repository for these functions.
>> I am willing to put them in the octplot cvs, but maybe octave-forge or
>> even octave would be a better place.
>>
>> Any suggestions or input would be welcome
>>
>> Shai
>>
>>
>

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