Re: Specifying RGB triples

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Thu, 4/21/11, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Specifying RGB triples
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 1:58 AM
> tor, 21 04 2011 kl. 01:14 -0700,
> skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: Specifying RGB triples
> > > To: "pathematica" <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 12:06 AM
> > > ons, 20 04 2011 kl. 23:56 -0700,
> > > skrev pathematica:
> > [snip]
> > >   plot (sin (1:100), 'color',
> [0.9, 0.2, 0.2])
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Søren
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Is this described anywhere in Octave documentation ?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> > And how this can be understood from "get(gcf())"
> output ?
> 
> "get(gcf())" just gives you a list of figure properties,
> such as the
> size of the figure, etc. The above colour-stuff is the
> property of a
> specific plot element. You should be able to get related
> information by
> doing something like
> 
>   handle = plot (sin (1:100));
>   get (handle)
> 
> Søren
> 
> 

You example among other things produces:

"
  color =

     0   0   1
".

How am I supposed from the above output to know that 'color' should be
specified as vector and not as, say, string or cell array ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.