### Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
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function image (x, zoom)

  ## Display an octave image matrix.
  ##
  ## image (x) 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.
  ##
  ## image (x, zoom) changes the zoom factor.  The default value is 4.
  ##
  ## SEE ALSO: imshow, imagesc, colormap.

  ## Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) July 1994.

  if (nargin == 0)
    ## Load Bobbie Jo Richardson (Born 3/16/94)
    x = loadimage ("default.img");
    zoom = 2;
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    zoom = 4;
  elseif (nargin > 2)
    usage ("image (matrix, [zoom])");
  endif

  ## XXX FIXME XXX -- we should use octave_tmp_file_name.

  rnd_str = num2str (fix (rand * 10000));
  ppm_name = ["image.", rnd_str, ".ppm" ];

  saveimage (ppm_name, x, "ppm");

  ## Start the viewer.  Try xv, then xloadimage.

  xv = sprintf ("xv -expand %f %s", zoom, ppm_name);
  xloadimage = sprintf ("xloadimage -zoom %f %s", zoom*100, ppm_name);
  rm = sprintf ("rm -f %s", ppm_name);

  command = sprintf ("( %s || %s && %s ) > /dev/null 2>&1 &", ...
                     xv, xloadimage, rm);

  system (command);

endfunction