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+## Copyright (C) 1994-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## 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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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} imagesc (@var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imagesc (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imagesc (@dots{}, @var{limits})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} imagesc (@var{h}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} imagesc (@dots{})
+## Display a scaled version of the matrix @var{A} as a color image. The
+## colormap is scaled so that the entries of the matrix occupy the entire
+## colormap. If @var{limits} = [@var{lo}, @var{hi}] are given, then that
+## range is set to the 'clim' of the current axes.
+##
+## The axis values corresponding to the matrix elements are specified in
+## @var{x} and @var{y}, either as pairs giving the minimum and maximum
+## values for the respective axes, or as values for each row and column
+## of the matrix @var{A}.
+##
+## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the image.
+## @seealso{image, imshow, caxis}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
+## Created: July 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function retval = imagesc (varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ elseif (isscalar (varargin{1}) && ishandle (varargin{1}))
+ h = varargin{1};
+ if (! strcmp (get (h, "type"), "axes"))
+ error ("imagesc: expecting first argument to be an axes object");
+ endif
+ oldh = gca ();
+ unwind_protect
+ axes (h);
+ tmp = __imagesc__ (h, varargin{2:end});
+ unwind_protect_cleanup
+ axes (oldh);
+ end_unwind_protect
+ else
+ tmp = __imagesc__ (gca (), varargin{:});
+ endif
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = tmp;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+function ret = __imagesc__ (ax, x, y, A, limits, DEPRECATEDZOOM)
+
+ ## Deprecated zoom. Remove this hunk of code if old zoom argument
+ ## is outmoded.
+ if ((nargin == 3 && isscalar (y))
+ || (nargin == 4 && (isscalar (y) || isscalar (A)))
+ || (nargin == 5 && isscalar (limits))
+ || nargin == 6)
+ warning ("image: zoom argument ignored -- use GUI features");
+ endif
+ if (nargin == 6)
+ if (isscalar (limits))
+ limits = DEPRECATEDZOOM;
+ endif
+ nargin = 5;
+ endif
+ if (nargin == 5 && isscalar (limits))
+ nargin = 4;
+ endif
+ if (nargin == 4 && (isscalar (y) || isscalar (A)))
+ if (isscalar (y))
+ y = A;
+ endif
+ nargin = 3;
+ endif
+ if (nargin == 3 && isscalar (y))
+ nargin = 2;
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 5)
+ print_usage ();
+ elseif (nargin == 2)
+ A = x;
+ x = y = limits = [];
+ elseif (nargin == 3)
+ A = x;
+ limits = y;
+ x = y = [];
+ elseif (nargin == 4 && ! isscalar (x) && ! isscalar (y) && ! isscalar (A))
+ limits = [];
+ endif
+
+ ret = image (ax, x, y, A);
+ set (ret, "cdatamapping", "scaled");
+
+ ## use given limits or guess them from the matrix
+ if (length (limits) == 2 && limits(2) >= limits(1))
+ set (ax, "clim", limits);
+ elseif (! isempty (limits))
+ error ("imagesc: expected data LIMITS to be [lo, hi]");
+ endif
+
+endfunction