## Copyright (C) 2012 Rik Wehbring
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{map} =} lines ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{map} =} lines (@var{n})
## Create color colormap.  This colormap is composed of the list of colors
## in the current axes "ColorOrder" property.  The default is blue,
## green, red, cyan, pink, yellow, and gray.
## The argument @var{n} must be a scalar.
## If unspecified, the length of the current colormap, or 64, is used.
## @seealso{colormap}
## @end deftypefn

function map = lines (n)

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

  c = get (gca, "colororder");
  nr = rows (c);
  map = c(rem (0:(n-1), nr) + 1, :);

endfunction


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