Re: smooth shading & terminal specialities

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Thus you mean to automagically change "with pm3d" into "with image" without 
>> knowing it to user? That's not a good idea I think.
>
> Well, yes and no.  The point is, there are several images where the 
> underlying image routine can be used for the plots that pm3d creates but the 
> image routine is a much more compact manner of representing that plot.  (For 
>
> HOWEVER, there is still a slight difference in behavior that can't be 
> changed.  It has to do with that "original grid points" demo you created. 
> The one that shows a 4x4 set of points results in a 3x3 set of colored 
> rectangles.  I.e., the images on the pm3d.html page have to look exactly as

The pm3d drawing routine would call image drawing routine with a calculated 
matrix if the surface has_grid_topology. This would probably be easy to 
implement.

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