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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} meshz (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
+## Plot a curtain mesh given matrices @var{x}, and @var{y} from
+## @code{meshgrid} and a matrix @var{z} corresponding to the @var{x} and
+## @var{y} coordinates of the mesh. If @var{x} and @var{y} are vectors,
+## then a typical vertex is (@var{x}(j), @var{y}(i), @var{z}(i,j)). Thus,
+## columns of @var{z} correspond to different @var{x} values and rows of
+## @var{z} correspond to different @var{y} values.
+## @seealso{meshgrid, mesh, contour}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = meshz (varargin)
+
+ [h, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("meshz", varargin{:});
+
+ ioff = nargin + 1;
+ for i = 1:nargin
+ if (ischar (varargin{i}))
+ ioff = i;
+ break;
+ endif
+ endfor
+
+ ## Bundle C matrix back into varargin
+ if (ioff == 3 || ioff == 5)
+ ioff --;
+ endif
+
+ if (ioff == 2)
+ z = varargin{1};
+ [m, n] = size (z);
+ x = 1:n;
+ y = (1:m).';
+ else
+ x = varargin{1};
+ y = varargin{2};
+ z = varargin{3};
+ endif
+
+
+ if (isvector (x) && isvector (y))
+ x = [x(1), x(:).', x(end)];
+ y = [y(1); y(:); y(end)];
+ else
+ x = [x(1, 1), x(1, :), x(1, end);
+ x(:, 1), x, x(:, end);
+ x(end, 1), x(end, :), x(end, end)];
+ y = [y(1, 1), y(1, :), y(1, end);
+ y(:, 1), y, y(:, end);
+ y(end, 1), y(end, :), y(end, end)];
+ endif
+
+ zref = min(z(isfinite(z)));
+ z = [zref .* ones(1, size(z, 2) + 2);
+ zref .* ones(size(z, 1), 1), z, zref .* ones(size(z, 1), 1);
+ zref.* ones(1, size(z, 2) + 2)];
+
+ oldh = gca ();
+ unwind_protect
+ axes (h);
+ tmp = mesh (x, y, z, varargin{ioff:end});
+ unwind_protect_cleanup
+ axes (oldh);
+ end_unwind_protect
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = tmp;
+ endif
+
+endfunction