I use surf to plot 3D surface, and I try to add borders using "box on", but it can only show 3 borders. see
However, What I really want is to add all 6 borders for the cube, like this
.
Could anyone tell me how to do that?
You need to change the axes BoxStyle to 'full', with the Box on. For example:
[x,y] = meshgrid( 0:0.1:6, 0:0.1:6 );
surf( x, y, cos(x)+sin(y), 'LineStyle', 'none' );
set( gca, 'Box', 'on', 'BoxStyle', 'full' );
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I'm representing a surface using "surf" function, with a colorbar. I would like to keep the default ticks of the colorbar, but add a custom tick on this colorbar, at a specific value (that I could make red to distinguish it from other ticks for example). Any idea on how to add a custom tick like that with keeping existing ticks on the colorbar ?
Thanks
As Luis mentioned in the comments, you can add an additional tick mark like so
h = colorbar;
newTick = 0.75;
h.Ticks = sort([h.Ticks newTick]);
If you want to add a line to the bar, the easiest thing (I think) is to use an annotation which is positioned relative to the figure (the same as the colorbar), so we can overlay it
pos = h.Position;
r = (newTick - min(h.Ticks))/(max(h.Ticks)-min(h.Ticks));
annotation( 'line', pos(1)+[0, pos(3)], [1, 1]*(pos(2)+pos(4)*r), ...
'color', [1,0,0], 'linewidth', 2 );
I'm setting the x position of the annotation to match the left and right sides of the colorbar, and the y position to match the bottom plus the relative % of the height according to the tick value.
Result:
Similarly, you could use annotatation exclusively to just get a red label, it's a little more convoluted to get everything lined up correctly, you have to make sure the text box is wide enough to be on a single line and vertically aligned to the middle to get the position right:
h = colorbar;
newTick = 0.75;
pos = h.Position;
r = (newTick - min(h.Ticks))/(max(h.Ticks)-min(h.Ticks));
h = 0.2;
annotation( 'textbox', [pos(1)+pos(3)/2, (pos(2)+pos(4)*r)-(h/2), pos(3)*2, h], ...
'color', [1,0,0], 'string', ['- ' num2str(newTick)], 'linestyle', 'none', ...
'VerticalAlignment', 'middle' );
I would like to know how to draw the following meshes in such color in Matlab. The images are extracted from Microsoft paper on Kinect (link). It seems there is no default colormap of these sort. Do I need to create a new colormap?
The image shown is from figure 1, where they write that the lighting is Phong-shaded renderings (greyscale). This is what you call "silver-colored", i.e. colormap('gray') combined with reflections.
A quick google search suggests you looking at https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35240-matlab-plot-gallery-change-lighting-to-phong/content/html/Lighting_Phong.html
I've tried to make a custom milky colormap.
trisurf(tri, vertex(:, 1), vertex(:, 2), vertex(:, 3), 0, 'edgecolor', 'none');
axis equal;
axis vis3d;
light('Position', [0 0 1], 'Style', 'infinite');
colormap jet;
map = [0.83,0.82,0.78
1,1,1];
colormap(map);
lighting phong;
The result goes like this,
I'm trying to display a color disparity map, but it first displays black and white until I do 'colormap jet' then it's in color.
How can black and white image be suppressed?
imshow(disparityMap, DisparityRange );
title('DISPARITY MAP');
colormap jet;
Specify the colormap parameter to imshow.
imshow(disparityMap, DisparityRange, 'colormap', jet);
Example use
im = imread('cameraman.tif');
imshow(im, [60,200], 'colormap', hsv);
We get this image:
I'm trying to make the red bands in the second subplot of the figure below go transparent with an opacity similar to alpha(0.2).
http://i.stack.imgur.com/zJjYk.jpg
However, when I try to call alpha(0.2) after the following code that generates the red bands:
Plotha1 = area([datenum(time(11,1),1,1) datenum(time(15,1),1,1)],[1.3*max(SA(:,2)) 1.3*max(SA(:,2))]);
set(Plotha1,'BaseValue',1.3*min(SA(:,2)),'FaceColor','r','LineStyle', 'none');
Plotha2 = area([datenum(time(4,1),1,1) datenum(time(8,1),1,1)],[1.3*max(SA(:,2)) 1.3*max(SA(:,2))]);
set(Plotha2,'BaseValue',1.3*min(SA(:,2)),'FaceColor','r','LineStyle', 'none');
alpha(0.2);
The third subplot goes blank like in the second figure.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/tjgIT.jpg
The code generating the third subplot comes last in my code:
subplot(3,1,3),
W = zeros(T,1);
PlotZeros = plot(datenum(time,1,1),W);
dateFormat = 'yyyy';
datetick('x',dateFormat);
hold on
PlotResid = plot(datenum(time,1,1),Resid);
set(PlotZeros,'Color',[0.5 0.5 0.5]); %grey
set(PlotResid,'Color','blue');
axis([datenum(time(1,1),1,1) datenum(time(end,1),1,1) 1.3*min(Resid) 1.3*max(Resid)])
hold off
I have tried moving things around so that the code generating the 2nd subplot comes last but it still causes the 3rd subplot to go blank. Does anyone know how to make these areaseries red bands go transparent without disrupting the 3rd subplot?
Thanks!
You could try using fill or patch with the 'facealpha' property instead of the area command:
% x and y vals define the 4 corners of the rectangle
% (slightly different than "area")
x_vals=[datenum(time(4,1),1,1) datenum(time(8,1),1,1) ...
datenum(time(8,1),1,1) datenum(time(4,1),1,1)];
y_vals=[1.3*min(SA(:,2)) 1.3*min(SA(:,2)) ...
1.3*max(SA(:,2)) 1.3*max(SA(:,2))];
Plotha2 = fill(x_vals,y_vals,'red','edgecolor','none','facealpha',0.2);
I am currently working on adding annotations to satellite images in MATLAB. Since the color underneath each text field can vary quite a lot, I want to use a background color under the text to make it easier to see and read.
However, when I do this, a lot of the terrain gets obscured. I though of trying to make the background color for each text box semi transparent, but hit a dead end trying to come up with a solution.
Any ideas? I was hoping for some UI-element where I could just set the 'facealpha' to maybe 0.5. I also need the text to support being rotated (as can be seen in the examples below).
Below is some example code and the resulting image. The workspace with the satellite data can also be found in the link:
Example workspace
figure(1);clf
imagesc(xx,yy,Map);
hold on
plot(xInspection,yInspection,'g.-')
% # Two ways of making a rotated text annotation.
% # Cant make background semi-transparent
testAnno= annotation('textarrow',[0.5 0.5],[0.5 0.5], ...
'string','textarrow annotation', ...
'HeadStyle','none','LineStyle', 'none',...
'TextRotation',asin(directionVec(1))*180/pi,...
'TextBackgroundColor',[0.7 0.7 0.7]);
testText = text(mean(xInspection),mean(yInspection),'text annotation', ...
'rotation',asin(directionVec(1))*180/pi, ...
'HorizontalAlignment','right', ...
'color',[0 0 0], ...
'backgroundcolor',[0.7 0.7 0.7], ...
'fontsize',8);
It doesn't look like either annotation or text return HgObjects that have BackgroundAlpha properties (they might exist but I wasn't able to find them using getundoc or by trying various different hacks).
I was able to get something working by drawing the background myself. Here is a simple proof of concept:
f = figure;
tObj = text(.5, .5, 'text object', 'FontSize', 20);
set(gca,'XLimMode', 'manual', 'YLimMode', 'manual'); % prevent the axes from resizing automatically
p = get(tObj, 'Extent'); %Get the outer position of the text
% now create a patch around the text object
pObj = patch([p(1) p(1) p(1)+p(3) p(1)+p(3)], [p(2) p(2)+p(4) p(2)+p(4) p(2)], 'r');
uistack(tObj, 'top'); % put the text object on top of the patch object
set(pObj , 'FaceAlpha', .2); % set the alpha of the patch face to .2
%Rotate the objects
set(tObj, 'Rotation', 20);
rotate(pObj, [0 0 1], 20);
I am afraid the only way you can do this is by not setting any color to your annotations, and then placing a patch in the background of each annotation. So something like this:
% Use completely transparent annotations
hA = annotation('textarrow', ..., 'TextBackgroundColor', 'none')
% Place a transparent patch exactly in the background of your annotation
hP = patch(X, Y, 'white', 'EdgeColor', 'none', 'FaceColor', 'white', ...
'alpha', 0.3)
% Ensure that your annotation is on top
uistack(hA, 'top')
But of course the big problem is to determine the correct coordinates of the patch (X and Y). Rotating is easy by simply multiplying your coordinates by a rotation matrix. However, finding the length and height of the patch and its central location is not that easy. You might be able to find some useful functions for this at Matlab central...