Re: Generic Mapping Tools

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Ismael Núñez-Riboni wrote:

> Anybody combining Octave (3.4.3) with the generic mapping tools of the Hawaii 
> University (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/)?
> 
> I already googled, I'm aware of the MEX files to read grid files under 
> Octave, but I wonder if there is an easy way of plotting from Octave using 
> the GMT as a backend, i.e., not necessarily dreaming of this:
> 
> graphics_toolkit gmt
> 
> but at least some functions in Octave that pass data to be plotted as 
> arguments to the GMT functions (not by saving on disk) to plot the data using 
> GMT (and ideally in a X11 window and not to a PS file).
> 
> Thanks a lot for the answer in advance... Cheers, Ismael.

I haven't tried it, but are you looking for something like this ?

        http://code.google.com/p/mirone/

Ben