Re: Blank image() plot from Octave-3.6.4 on OS X with gnuplot-4.6.1 and aquaterm-1.1.1

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On 2/23/13 2:07 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> 
>>> #Test case:
>>> 
>>> A(1:512,1:512)=0;
>>> A(256-10:256+10,256-10:256+10)= 255;
>>> 
>>> #then either
>>> 
>>> imagesc(A)
>>> 
>>> #or
>>> 
>>> image(A)
>>> 
>>> I saw the bug reports about this issue:
>>> 
>>> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2012-October/054888.html
>>> 
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3583459&group_id=2055&atid=102055
>>> 
>>> but apparently it wasn't fixed.
>>> 
>>> Is there a workaround other than changing the plot terminal?
>> 
>> Not a desirable solution .... but did you try to revert to an earlier 
>> version of gnuplot?
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> No, because I didn't have one handy.  This was in response to a bug
> report against what we currently have in the Fink distribution (well,
> really against Octave-3.6.3, since this was just before I added 3.6.4),
> and I gave the OP the links as well as suggesting changing the terminal
> type as a workaround.
> 
> I'd rather not downgrade gnuplot globally unless I absolutely have to,
> since other packages use it besides Octave.

I did try to patch Octave gnuplot code to append "failsafe" to the plot 
command, but found that gnuplot would hang for your example.

Sorry, I don't have a work around, but I'll give some more thought to it.

Ben