Re: cylinder.m function - fixed copyright

[Kai Habel]

John W. Eaton schrieb:
> On 26-Nov-2007, Kai Habel wrote:
>
> | I have implemented the cylinder function. It should be compatible with
> | matlab's function, please try the example.
>
> I added this function and checked it in, however, I see
>
>   octave:1> [X, Y, Z] = cylinder(10:-1:0,50);
>   octave:2> surf(X,Y,Z);
>   error: surface::defaults: not implemented
>   error: called from `surface' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-trunk/scripts/plot/surface.m'
>   error: evaluating assignment expression near line 36, column 7
>   error: called from `surf' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-trunk/scripts/plot/surf.m'
>
> are there pending changes that are needed?
>
>   
Yes, there are pending patches from David, which should fix this.
> Also, the tic labels on the left y axis seem to be all smashed on top
> of one another at -10, but maybe that is a gnuplot bug because we are
> viewing this as a 3D graph?
>   
Hmm, I don't see this this here. I would suggest to wait for David's
patches and see if these problems vanish.
> Finally, I find it odd that
>
>   [X, Y, Z] = cylinder(10:-1:0,50);
>
> by itself opens an empty plot window.  I would expect it do only
> compute the X, Y, and Z values, not display anything.
>   
This is because of the gca() call, I'll try to fix this.

Kai