## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
##
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## Display an octave image matrix.
##
## image (x[, map]) displays a matrix as a color image. The elements of x are
## indices into the current colormap and should have values between 1
## and the length of the colormap.
##
## SEE ALSO: imshow, imagesc, colormap.

## Author: Tony Richardson <amr@mpl.ucsd.edu>
## Created: July 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
## Modified by Klaus Gebhardt, 1996 - 1997

function image (x, zoom)

  if (nargin == 0)
    ## Load Bobbie Jo Richardson (Born 3/16/94)
    [x, map] = loadimage ("default.img");
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    zoom = 1;
  elseif (nargin > 2)
    usage ("image (matrix, [zoom])");
  endif

  pnm_name = tmpnam ();

  saveimage (pnm_name, x, "pnm");

  ## Start the viewer.
  i = findstr (pnm_name, "/");
  pnm_name (i) = "\\";

  system (sprintf ("oct-view %s %f", pnm_name, zoom));

endfunction
