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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} flag (@var{n})
21## Create color colormap. This colormap cycles through red, white, blue
22## and black. The argument @var{n} should be a scalar. If it
23## is omitted, the length of the current colormap or 64 is assumed.
27## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
29## flag(number) gives a colormap consists of red, white, blue and black
30## changing with each index
32function map = flag (number)
35 number = rows (colormap);
37 if (! isscalar (number))
38 error ("flag: argument must be a scalar");
44 p = [1, 0, 0; 1, 1, 1; 0, 0, 1; 0, 0, 0];
45 if (rem(number,4) == 0)
46 map = kron (ones (number / 4, 1), p);
48 m1 = kron (ones (fix (number / 4), 1), p);
49 m2 = p(1:rem (number, 4), :);
56%! ## Show the 'flag' colormap as an image
57%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat (1:64, 64, 1)')
58%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy")