Re: More octave-forge functions!!!

[David Bateman]

Bill Denney wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
>> man, 29 05 2006 kl. 14:50 +0200, skrev David Bateman:
>>
>>> The remaining functions I consider to fall into two groups. The first
>>> of these groups of function in octave-forge which are core matlab
>>> functions is
>>>
>>>  brighten contourf drawnow fill fill3 gtext imread imwrite
>>>  legend meshc pareto patch pcolor peaks pie psi quiver
>>>  scatter stem surf surfc text view zoom
>>>
>>> Essentially these are all graphics functions and the graphics handles
>>> stuff will either largely change these functions, or simplify them
>>> and so I don't think these should be treated until the graphics
>>> handles stuff is addressed. Though they should go on someones todo list.
>>
>>
>> Why do imread and imwrite fall in this category? Do they really depend
>> on the handle-graphics stuff? I thought the problem with these functions
>> was ImageMagick.
> 
> 
> The ones that will definitely be handled by the object graphics will be:
> 
> contourf drawnow fill fill3 gtext legend meshc pareto patch pcolor peaks
> pie quiver scatter stem surf surfc text view zoom
> 

Ah so I can leave them to some one else :-)

> The ones that touch on, but are not specific to, object graphics are
> 
> brighten imread imwrite

Yes, see my response to Soren. Basically brigten is easy, though you
might like to change it.

> 
> brighten would require minimal modification after object graphics is
> completed if done now, and imread and imwrite are independent of object
> graphics.
> 
> I'm not sure where psi fits in.

Sorry I took John's e-mail from over a year ago and psi was on the list.
Its in gsl as well and so falls into the point on porting the other gsl
functions.

D.