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Re: graphics future


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: graphics future
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:22:16 +0200

On 4/26/07, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
John W. Eaton wrote:

> | While group objects make these a LITTLE bit more convenient, I fail to
> | see what qualitative added value they have.
>
> It is impossible to implement some fairly common plot types (stem,
> bar, hist, stairs) in a compatible way without them.

Take stem for example.  Where is the incompatibility?  What portion of this
incompatibility has to do with the graphics engine?
Well, stem should return a stemseries object:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/stem.html
so, the incompatibility is only in the return values. All input
parameters can be parsed and drawn in a compatible way with core
objects only


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