Re: Reviving compare_plot_demos

[Rik]

On 06/21/2014 09:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:36:31 +0200
> From: Andreas Weber <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Maintainers <address@hidden>
> Subject: revive compare_plot_demos
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> Dear maintainers,
>
> due to the many bug reports related to printing plots and regressions in
> plotting demos I would like to revive
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/compare_plots/
>
> Here is the initial posting from S?ren:
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Comparing-plots-to-Matlab-td3068200.html
>
> And this is the last proposed patch from Ben I could found (which was,
> to my knowledge, never applied):
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/demo-syntax-and-using-dump-demos-to-compare-to-ML-tp4316479p4319733.html
>
> Because it's difficult to compare the plots automatically I think a cool
> feature would be a rating function where users can give points for each
> gnuplot, fltk (and qt in the future) and submit it at the end. For
> example 10 points is as good as or even better as matlab, 0 points is
> absolutely useless or an empty plot.
>
> What do you think?
I think this is a very good idea, and was getting ready to propose this
myself.  The development branch has seen a lot of work cleaning up the
OpenGL renderer as well as the m-files for plotting.  We need a new
baseline to see how we are doing.

--Rik