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+## Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Kai Habel
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+##
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{map} =} jet ()
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{map} =} jet (@var{n})
+## Create color colormap. This colormap ranges from dark blue through blue,
+## cyan, green, yellow, red, to dark red.
+## The argument @var{n} must be a scalar.
+## If unspecified, the length of the current colormap, or 64, is used.
+## @seealso{colormap}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
+
+function map = jet (n)
+
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ n = rows (colormap);
+ elseif (nargin == 1)
+ if (! isscalar (n))
+ error ("jet: argument must be a scalar");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (n == 1)
+ map = [0, 0, 0.5];
+ elseif (n > 1)
+ x = linspace(0, 1, n)';
+ r = (x >= 3/8 & x < 5/8) .* (4 * x - 3/2)\
+ + (x >= 5/8 & x < 7/8) + (x >= 7/8) .* (-4 * x + 9/2);
+ g = (x >= 1/8 & x < 3/8) .* (4 * x - 1/2)\
+ + (x >= 3/8 & x < 5/8) + (x >= 5/8 & x < 7/8) .* (-4 * x + 7/2);
+ b = (x < 1/8) .* (4 * x + 1/2) + (x >= 1/8 & x < 3/8)\
+ + (x >= 3/8 & x < 5/8) .* (-4 * x + 5/2);
+ map = [r, g, b];
+ else
+ map = [];
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!demo
+%! ## Show the 'jet' colormap as an image
+%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat (1:64, 64, 1)')
+%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy")
+%! colormap (jet (64))
+