Octave rlocus: format ploles and zero

I would like to make a rlocus plot with Octave. The problem is that the poles and zeros in the plot appear very small and rather hard to see by the naked eye. Is there a way to make these more visible? Specifying the size of Markers doesn't help. My MWE code is:

pkg load control
num=[0 0 0 1 3];
den=[1 5 20 16 0];
sys=tf(num,den)
pole(sys)'

rlocus(sys);

v=[-6 6 -6 6]; axis(v);axis('square');grid on;


The poles are at these locations:

-2.00000 - 3.46410i
-2.00000 + 3.46410i
-1.00000 - 0.00000i
0.00000 - 0.00000i


And there is a zero at -3.0000. The plot from Octave is:

Octave adds a legend and shows a red dot for poles and a blue dot for zeros. These markers are so tiny that I have to zoom in at several magnitudes in order to see them. In the figure attached one will not be able to see these small markers at all.

• How about adding a picture showing the too-small-to-properly-see artefacts? May 7 '18 at 10:00

Edit the rlocus.m file, in \share\octave\packages\control-3.1.0\rlocus.m

Change lines 291 to 294 from:

set (hplt(kk--), "markersize", 2);
if (! isempty (rlzer))
set (hplt(kk--), "markersize", 2);
endif


to:

set (hplt(kk--), "markersize", 10);
if (! isempty (rlzer))
set (hplt(kk--), "markersize", 10);
endif


Result:

• @VincenteCunha Excellent! Are there any good tutorials on Octave for the control package? The web shows little resources. May 8 '18 at 4:56
• Sorry, I could not say. I'm more of a matlab guy, never really used octave. May 8 '18 at 5:22
• A few Matlab functions sadly do not have their equivalence in Octave and as far as I can see there is no proper resources of documents showing Octave being applied to control problems. May 8 '18 at 5:54

I know nothing about octave but perhaps this solution I just found will work.

Function File: axis ([x_lo x_hi y_lo y {_hi z_lo z_hi}])
(z is optional)

https://octave.org/doc/v4.0.1/Axis-Configuration.html

• My question is more for the locations of poles and zeros that Octave draws very small on the plot. Thanks anyway. May 6 '18 at 17:45