Multiple mesh plot with a correct legend

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Xandri Farr wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Please forgive me for re-sending this e-mail. In the haste of  
> sending the e-mail I forgot to add a Subject line to my e-mail.
>
> Can somebody please assist me to plot a multiple mesh plot with a  
> user-defined legend.
> So far the following works to plot more than one mesh plot in one  
> window on one axis...
>
>    mesh(x,y,z)
>    hold
>    mesh(i,j,k)
>
> However, I can not manage to add a legend that describes each mesh  
> and its colour.  The figure just displays
> line 1, line2, etc with the colour of the mesh.
>
> I would like to rename these "lines".

Can you tell us which version of Octave your are running?

In any event, take a look at "help colormap" ... does that do what you  
need?

Ben