Re: [OctDev] Java/OpenGL-based graphics package for octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On 4/24/07, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > In Matlab, a stemseries object has 2 children:
>  > - a line object for all stems: the key here is that the original x/y
>  > data are
>  > converted into [x0 x0 NaN x1 x1 NaN...] [B y0 NaN B y1 NaN...] where B is
>  > the base value; line segments containing NaN are not drawn by Matlab
>  > - a line object for the markers
>  >
>  > The base line is a (extended) line object that is a child of the axes and
>  > shared by all stemseries objects within the same plot.
>
> Oh, that's interesting.  So the stem series is just a single line in some sense
> with a bunch of blank spots along the way.

It's actually 2 lines: one for the stems with blanks/NaN inserted, one for the
markers with the original x/y data. But for the rest, you're right.

Michael.