[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#512385: Bug#512385: octaviz: The "BandContourTerrain" example doesn't produce any output

[Thomas Weber]

package octaviz
tags 512385 confirmed
tags 512385 upstream
thanks

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:07:19PM +0100, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Package: octaviz
> Version: 0.4.7-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I have tried starting Octave (using the command "octave") and then
> immediately running the example "BandContourTerrain" using the Octave
> command "run /usr/share/doc/octaviz/examples/BandContourTerrain.m".
> This only results in a grey window with the title "Visualization
> Toolkit - OpenGL".  The comments in the example indicates that there
> should be a somewhat more colourful result.

You are right. Press "r" on the final image, to reset the camera. There
was a change in VTK quite some time ago to the vtkDEMReader, 

http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2004-July/075332.html

You shouldn't expect a fixed example for this, though. Octaviz's
development has stopped quite some time ago.

	Thomas