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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 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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+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} ribbon (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{width})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ribbon (@var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} ribbon (@dots{})
+## Plot a ribbon plot for the columns of @var{y} vs. @var{x}. The
+## optional parameter @var{width} specifies the width of a single ribbon
+## (default is 0.75). If @var{x} is omitted, a vector containing the
+## row numbers is assumed (1:rows(Y)).
+##
+## The optional return value @var{h} is a vector of graphics handles to
+## the surface objects representing each ribbon.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel at gmx.de>
+
+function h = ribbon (x, y, width)
+
+ newplot ();
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ y = x;
+ if (isvector (y))
+ y = y(:);
+ endif
+ [nr, nc] = size (y);
+ x = repmat ((1:nr)', 1, nc);
+ width = 0.75;
+ elseif (nargin == 2)
+ width = 0.75;
+ elseif (nargin != 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (isvector (x) && isvector (y))
+ if (length (x) != length (y))
+ error ("ribbon: in case of vectors, X and Y must have same length");
+ else
+ [x, y] = meshgrid (x, y);
+ endif
+ else
+ if (! size_equal(x, y))
+ error ("ribbon: in case of matrices, X and Y must have same size");
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ [nr, nc] = size (y);
+ tmp = zeros (1, nc);
+
+ for c = nc:-1:1
+ zz = [y(:,c), y(:,c)];
+ yy = x(:,c);
+ xx = [c - width / 2, c + width / 2];
+ [xx, yy] = meshgrid (xx, yy);
+ cc = ones (size (zz)) * c;
+ tmp(c) = surface (xx, yy, zz, cc);
+ endfor
+
+ ax = get (tmp(c), "parent");
+
+ if (! ishold ())
+ set (ax, "view", [-37.5, 30], "box", "off", "xgrid", "on",
+ "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
+ endif
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ h = tmp;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!demo
+%! clf
+%! [x, y, z] = sombrero ();
+%! [x, y] = meshgrid (x, y);
+%! ribbon (y, z);
+