## Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Kai Habel
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{map} =} summer ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{map} =} summer (@var{n})
## Create color colormap.  This colormap varies from green to yellow.
## The argument @var{n} must be a scalar.
## If unspecified, the length of the current colormap, or 64, is used.
## @seealso{colormap}
## @end deftypefn

## Author:  Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
## Date:  06/03/2000
function map = summer (n)

  if (nargin == 0)
    n = rows (colormap);
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    if (! isscalar (n))
      error ("summer: argument must be a scalar");
    endif
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (n == 1)
    map = [0, 0.5, 0.4];
  elseif (n > 1)
    r = (0:n - 1)' ./ (n - 1);
    g = 0.5 + r ./ 2;
    b = 0.4 * ones (n, 1);

    map = [r, g, b];
  else
    map = [];
  endif

endfunction

%!demo
%! ## Show the 'summer' colormap as an image
%! image (1:64, linspace (0, 1, 64), repmat (1:64, 64, 1)')
%! axis ([1, 64, 0, 1], "ticy", "xy")
%! colormap (summer (64))

