surf.m overwrites "facecolor" property

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Dec-2007, John W. Eaton wrote:

| On  6-Dec-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| 
| | Why does surf.m overwrite "facecolor" property of the generated surface?
| | This property should be "flat" by default for surface object. Setting it
| | explicitely makes it impossible to call surf like:
| | 
| | surf(peaks, "facecolor", "r");
| 
| Removing the
| 
|   "facecolor", "flat"
| 
| args from the call to __go_surface__ in surface.m doesn't seem to be
| enough to make your example work properly.  I could use some help here
| as I don't fully understand the way surface plotting is supposed to
| work.

Oh, now I see this message:

  
https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2007-December/005189.html

which is I think related.  If fixing this is difficult, then I'd say
we skip it for 3.0.

jwe