Re: revive compare_plot_demos

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 21, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Andreas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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 Sören:
> 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?
> -- Andy
> 

I had adopted Soren's "dump_plot_demos.m" and added some features (the details 
escape me at the moment).  In any event, the link below includes the scripts 
and the output (from the last time I ran it ... about 2.5 yrs ago).

        https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5x1ik04g3p1ouzj/AABr7imsXzMutM-nVi4StZc7a

Ben