[OctDev] Mixing images and graphs

[Justus P. <Jus...@UL...>]

Hi,

The upcoming release of Gnuplot (>4.0) offers new plot styles "with
image" and "with rgbimage". If I understand correctly, this allows
displaying images directly in the gnuplot window, and overlaying them
with graphs.

To me, this is a killer feature that I've used extensively in Matlab,
and that I'm missing badly in octave.

For future octave development, I propose to consider unifying graphics
handling by throwing out image viewers altogether, relying instead on
gnuplot for all image display, and to support overlaying plots over
images in octave.

Justus

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