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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} image (@var{x}, @var{zoom})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} image (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{A}, @var{zoom})
## Display a matrix as a color image.  The elements of @var{x} are indices
## into the current colormap and should have values between 1 and the
## length of the colormap.  If @var{zoom} is omitted, the image will be
## scaled to fit within 600x350 (to a max of 4).
##
## It first tries to use @code{display} from @code{ImageMagick} then
## @code{xv} and then @code{xloadimage}.
##
## The axis values corresponding to the matrix elements are specified in
## @var{x} and @var{y}. At present they are ignored.
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{imshow, imagesc, and colormap}

## Author: Tony Richardson <address@hidden>
## Created: July 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
## Modified-By: AR

function nimage (A, name, zoom, x, y)

  if (nargin == 0)
    ## Load Bobbie Jo Richardson (Born 3/16/94)
    A = loadimage ("default.img");
    zoom = 2;
  elseif (nargin == 1)
  ppm_name = tmpnam ();
    zoom = [];
    x = y = [];
  elseif (nargin == 2)
  ppm_name = sprintf("/tmp/%s",name);
    zoom = [];
    x = y = [];
  elseif (nargin == 3)
  ppm_name = sprintf("/tmp/%s",name);
    x = y = [];
  elseif (nargin == 4)
    usage ("nimage (matrix, name, zoom) or nimage (matrix, name, zoom, x, y)");
  elseif (nargin == 5)
  ppm_name = sprintf("/tmp/%s",name);
  elseif (nargin > 5)
    usage ("nimage (matrix, name, zoom) or nimage (matrix, name, zoom, x, y)");
  endif

  if isempty(zoom)
    ## Find an integer scale factor which sets the image to
    ## approximately the size of the screen.
    zoom = min ([350/rows(A), 600/columns(A), 4]);
    if (zoom >= 1)
      zoom = floor (zoom);
    else
      zoom = 1 / ceil (1/zoom);
    endif
  endif

  saveimage (ppm_name, A, "ppm");

  ## Start the viewer.  Try display, xv, then xloadimage.

  xv = sprintf ("xv -raw -expand %f \"%s\"", zoom, ppm_name);

  xloadimage = sprintf ("xloadimage -zoom %f \"%s\"", zoom*100, ppm_name);

  ## ImageMagick:
  im_display = sprintf ("display -geometry %f%% \"%s\"", zoom*100, ppm_name);
  
  rm = sprintf ("rm -f \"%s\"", ppm_name);

  ## Need to let the shell clean up the tmp file because we are putting
  ## the viewer in the background.

  system (sprintf ("( %s || %s || %s && %s ) > /dev/null 2>&1 &",
                   im_display, xv, xloadimage, rm));

endfunction