Re: Continuous colour pm3d

[Fredrik Lingvall]

address@hidden wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> Another Octave/Gnuplot newbie question...
>
> I'm trying get a Matlab-like image function working with gnuplot and I am use the fink 
> binary for OS X (2.1.53 and gnuplot 3.8).  I want to display matrices as images where 
> each element is a "density" which I would like colour coded.  I am able to do 
> this with aquaterm (looks great!), svg, pdf and ps, but when I try to use a terminal like 
> png or jpeg I get
>
> "Error: terminal 'png' does not support continuous colours".
>  
If you have octave-forge, this should work:

   print("snapshot_0000.png", "-dpng")

I use MEncoder and ImageMagick to generate the movie (on a x86 Gentoo 
machine).

See these scripts:

* Version of image.m that uses pm3d mode:

   http://www.signal.uu.se/Toolbox/dream/image.m

* Script that generates a movie:

http://www.signal.uu.se/Toolbox/dream/examples/make_snapshot.m

* An example movie:

 http://www.signal.uu.se/Toolbox/dream/video/snapshots.avi

/Fredrik



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