Re: Package geometry - drawCylinder error

[PhilipNienhuis]

Clinton Winant-2 wrote
> I encountered an error when trying to run the demo at the end of the
> drawCylinder script:
> 
>>> pkg install -forge geometry
> For information about changes from previous versions of the geometry
> package, run 'news geometry'.
>>> pkg load geometry
>>> which drawCylinder
> 'drawCylinder' is a function from the file
> /home/abr_ca/octave/geometry-2.1.1/geom3d/drawCylinder.m
>>> h = drawCylinder([0 0 0 10 20 30 5],'FaceColor', 'r');
> error: __go_draw_axes__: gnuplot (as of v4.2) only supports 3-D filled
> triangular patches
> error: called from
>     __go_draw_axes__ at line 671 column 18
>     __go_draw_figure__ at line 172 column 17
>     __gnuplot_drawnow__ at line 86 column 5
>>> quit

I can confirm that this demo doesn't work with gnuplot.
It works fine however with the other graphics toolkits. 

Provided your Octave version supports other toolkits, try:

graphics_toolkit qt
-or-
graphics_toolkit fltk

Philip



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