Re: surf() plot renders incorrectly

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 7, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Terry Duell wrote:

> prof3.m"On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:18:29 +1000, Dmitri A. Sergatskov 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
>> In your script the last "pause" statement freezes the plot.
>> Comment it out and it should work.
> 
> Yes, that does make it work as it should.
> I have a tendency to pass the script name as a parameter when I run Octave, 
> ie. "octave surfprof3.m", which requires the pause if one wants to see any 
> graphics. Thanks for pointing that out.
> The "pause" doesn't have any effect on the gnuplot (X11 ?) window.


Octave sends commands to gnuplot through a pipe.  Octave's pause() command, 
will "pause" Octave, but gnuplot continues to run.  Thus, it is able to respond 
to pan, zoom, rotation, etc.

Ben