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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} {} hsv (@var{n})
+## Create color colormap. This colormap begins with red, changes through
+## yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta, before returning to red.
+## It is useful for displaying periodic functions. It is obtained by linearly
+## varying the hue through all possible values while keeping constant maximum
+## saturation and value and is equivalent to
+## @code{hsv2rgb ([linspace(0,1,N)', ones(N,2)])}.
+##
+## 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 = hsv (n)
+
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ n = rows (colormap);
+ elseif (nargin == 1)
+ if (! isscalar (n))
+ error ("hsv: argument must be a scalar");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (n == 1)
+ map = [1, 0, 0];
+ elseif (n > 1)
+ h = linspace (0, 1, n)';
+ map = hsv2rgb ([h, ones(n, 1), ones(n, 1)]);
+ else
+ map = [];
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!demo
+%! ## Show the 'hsv' colormap as an image
+%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat (1:64, 64, 1)')
+%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy")
+%! colormap (hsv (64))
+