For the 3.0 Octave community is actively working on the graphics end. A funny thread was posted about the trademarking of the word 'handle graphics' by Matlab. The term ''handle'' itself, however seems to have been used by X-window system, and even Microsoft since early 80's and 90's.
As for the graphics implementation support on the Octave front is completely being rewritten and we have handles implemented deep within the Octave type system in the interpreter. This is good news, with the development headed by John Eaton, himself.
A interesting development is the jhandles and Java Graphing tools in Octave-Forge by Michael Giffoul. I havent personally checked out the tools, still they look promising with the GPL'ing of Java itself, and the nice 3D capabilities of Java Graph. I wonder how fast it can show a mesh of 500x500 matrix.
Anyway, so hope to use a nice graphics-handle system in Octave, pretty soon!
Cheers,
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