pcolor and contour plot with different colormaps

Matlab does not allow to combine use more than one colormap in a figure. However there are some possibilities to get around this problem, which are presented in this article. Initilisation and export of figurecontour with white linescontour with gray colormap using combined colormapcontour with gray colormap using external toolscombined colormap with contour labels Initilisation and export of figure For all plots the...

plotyy with unequal tick locations for both datase...

In matlab the normal way to create plots with two y-axis is to use the command plotyy. This works quite simple, and creates equal tick locations for both data sets: xaxis = 0:0.1:25; y1 = linspace(12.1712,12.7679, length(xaxis)); y2 = linspace(0.3597,-28.7745, length(xaxis));   [AX,H1,H2] = plotyy(xaxis, y1, xaxis, y2);   plotstyle; % sets only colors, linestyle...

pcolor plots with publication ready formating

Matlab has many possibilities to create plots even fancy ones. However its defaults are very seldom suitable to use the plots directly for a publication. The following minimal code demonstrates how to generate a pcolor plot for 2D data with x- and y-axis. The data was calculated using the function shown here. pcolor(xAxis, yAxis, Data2D); shading flat; % do not interpolate pixels colorbar % add...

fast calculation of functions with two variables

If you come from the programming world of C/C++ or java or any other traditional programming languages you might fall into the trap of using for loops for the calculation of functions. This works as expected but it is much slower than what matlab can do. The following example demonstrates this principle (which you should not use if you can) Data2D = zeros([xPoints yPoints]); for xi = 1:xPoints x =...

plotting a filled curve

A search on how to fill the area under a curve reveals that such questions are quite often asked. Here is the solution in a function file that I created for simplifying filled curve plots using matlabs fill function. function handle = filledcurve(x, y, zero, colorspec)   if (nargin < 3) zero = 0; end   if (nargin < 4) colorspec = 'b'; end     xtemp =...

fast reading of structured text data with matlab

In the following I present a solution to read data from a textfile which has the number of x-values (columns) in the first line, the number of y-values (rows) in the second line and in all following lines the matrix with size x times y. The principle reading of the data is achieved by the following code % open file display(['reading ' FILENAME]); fid = fopen(FILENAME, 'r'); fseek(fid, 0,...