This is the link to the dataset. I have this contour plot which has a bit rough edges. My question is, how can I smooth these edges these edges correspond to Nan. I filled in the Z matrix with Nan so as to remove unwanted values.
I also wanted to ask that why shading flat and interp is not working on this contour.
I have set shading to flat and in Matlab2013b I get proper flat figure but in Matlab 2014b and 2015b I am getting this figure.
MATLAB 2015b:
MATLAB 2013b
How can I obtain perfectly meshed plot in Matlab 2015b, I checked for shading options in the documentation and there are only 3 faceted, interp and flat.
shading flat works in 2013b but not in subsequent versions. Can someone tell me why is it so?
This is the sample code which I am using right now:
clear all; close all; clc;
load temperature.txt;
time = temperature(:,1); % This column contains the time
x = temperature(:,2); % This column contains the x values.
temperature_system = temperature(:,3); % This column contains the temperatures.
% Rejecting the outliers
pos = (temperature_system > prctile(temperature_system,97));
time(pos) = [];
x(pos) = [];
temperature_system(pos) = [];
X1 = [time x];
F = scatteredInterpolant(X1,temperature_system);
x1 = linspace(min(x),max(x),100);
x2 = linspace(min(time),max(time),100);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(x2,x1);
Z = F(X,Y);
% Is the data below the criteria for all points in space at a specific time
emptyTime = all(Z<10,1);
emptySpace = all(Z<10,2);
[emptyTime, emptySpace] = meshgrid(emptyTime, emptySpace);
Z(emptyTime | emptySpace) = nan;
% Replacing the remaining zeros with nan
pos = find(Z<1);
Z(pos) = nan;
f1 = figure(1);
%set(f1,'renderer','zbuffer');
%surf(X,Y,Z);
[C,h] = contourf(X,Y,Z, 'Linestyle', 'none');
shading flat;
colormap(jet);
q = colorbar;
set(q,'direction','reverse');
q.Label.String = 'Temperature';
xlabel('Time (ps)','FontSize', 16, 'FontWeight', 'bold',...
'FontName', 'Helvetica', 'Color', 'Black');
ylabel('Length of box (A)','FontSize', 16, 'FontWeight', 'bold',...
'FontName', 'Helvetica', 'Color', 'Black');
set(gca,'LineWidth',3,'TickLength',[0.02 0.02]);
set(gca,'XMinorTick','on');
set(gca,'YMinorTick','on','XTicksBetween', 5);
set(gca,'FontSize',12,'FontName','Helvetica');
It's difficult to test the issue without having your data. I got rid of the lines by means of the LineStyle property:
Code:
Z = peaks(20);
subplot(2,1,1);
contourf(Z,10);
colorbar;
subplot(2,1,2);
contourf(Z,10, 'LineStyle', 'none');
colorbar;
I have 4 sets of values: y1, y2, y3, y4 and one set x. The y values are of different ranges, and I need to plot them as separate curves with separate sets of values on the y-axis.
To put it simple, I need 3 y-axes with different values (scales) for plotting on the same figure.
Any help appreciated, or tips on where to look.
This is a great chance to introduce you to the File Exchange. Though the organization of late has suffered from some very unfortunately interface design choices, it is still a great resource for pre-packaged solutions to common problems. Though many here have given you the gory details of how to achieve this (#prm!), I had a similar need a few years ago and found that addaxis worked very well. (It was a File Exchange pick of the week at one point!) It has inspired later, probably better mods. Here is some example output:
(source: mathworks.com)
I just searched for "plotyy" at File Exchange.
Though understanding what's going on in important, sometimes you just need to get things done, not do them yourself. Matlab Central is great for that.
One possibility you can try is to create 3 axes stacked one on top of the other with the 'Color' properties of the top two set to 'none' so that all the plots are visible. You would have to adjust the axes width, position, and x-axis limits so that the 3 y axes are side-by-side instead of on top of one another. You would also want to remove the x-axis tick marks and labels from 2 of the axes since they will lie on top of one another.
Here's a general implementation that computes the proper positions for the axes and offsets for the x-axis limits to keep the plots lined up properly:
%# Some sample data:
x = 0:20;
N = numel(x);
y1 = rand(1,N);
y2 = 5.*rand(1,N)+5;
y3 = 50.*rand(1,N)-50;
%# Some initial computations:
axesPosition = [110 40 200 200]; %# Axes position, in pixels
yWidth = 30; %# y axes spacing, in pixels
xLimit = [min(x) max(x)]; %# Range of x values
xOffset = -yWidth*diff(xLimit)/axesPosition(3);
%# Create the figure and axes:
figure('Units','pixels','Position',[200 200 330 260]);
h1 = axes('Units','pixels','Position',axesPosition,...
'Color','w','XColor','k','YColor','r',...
'XLim',xLimit,'YLim',[0 1],'NextPlot','add');
h2 = axes('Units','pixels','Position',axesPosition+yWidth.*[-1 0 1 0],...
'Color','none','XColor','k','YColor','m',...
'XLim',xLimit+[xOffset 0],'YLim',[0 10],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[],'NextPlot','add');
h3 = axes('Units','pixels','Position',axesPosition+yWidth.*[-2 0 2 0],...
'Color','none','XColor','k','YColor','b',...
'XLim',xLimit+[2*xOffset 0],'YLim',[-50 50],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[],'NextPlot','add');
xlabel(h1,'time');
ylabel(h3,'values');
%# Plot the data:
plot(h1,x,y1,'r');
plot(h2,x,y2,'m');
plot(h3,x,y3,'b');
and here's the resulting figure:
I know of plotyy that allows you to have two y-axes, but no "plotyyy"!
Perhaps you can normalize the y values to have the same scale (min/max normalization, zscore standardization, etc..), then you can just easily plot them using normal plot, hold sequence.
Here's an example:
%# random data
x=1:20;
y = [randn(20,1)*1 + 0 , randn(20,1)*5 + 10 , randn(20,1)*0.3 + 50];
%# plotyy
plotyy(x,y(:,1), x,y(:,3))
%# orginial
figure
subplot(221), plot(x,y(:,1), x,y(:,2), x,y(:,3))
title('original'), legend({'y1' 'y2' 'y3'})
%# normalize: (y-min)/(max-min) ==> [0,1]
yy = bsxfun(#times, bsxfun(#minus,y,min(y)), 1./range(y));
subplot(222), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('minmax')
%# standarize: (y - mean) / std ==> N(0,1)
yy = zscore(y);
subplot(223), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('zscore')
%# softmax normalization with logistic sigmoid ==> [0,1]
yy = 1 ./ ( 1 + exp( -zscore(y) ) );
subplot(224), plot(x,yy(:,1), x,yy(:,2), x,yy(:,3))
title('softmax')
Multi-scale plots are rare to find beyond two axes... Luckily in Matlab it is possible, but you have to fully overlap axes and play with tickmarks so as not to hide info.
Below is a nice working sample. I hope this is what you are looking for (although colors could be much nicer)!
close all
clear all
display('Generating data');
x = 0:10;
y1 = rand(1,11);
y2 = 10.*rand(1,11);
y3 = 100.*rand(1,11);
y4 = 100.*rand(1,11);
display('Plotting');
figure;
ax1 = gca;
get(ax1,'Position')
set(ax1,'XColor','k',...
'YColor','b',...
'YLim',[0,1],...
'YTick',[0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0]);
line(x, y1, 'Color', 'b', 'LineStyle', '-', 'Marker', '.', 'Parent', ax1)
ax2 = axes('Position',get(ax1,'Position'),...
'XAxisLocation','bottom',...
'YAxisLocation','left',...
'Color','none',...
'XColor','k',...
'YColor','r',...
'YLim',[0,10],...
'YTick',[1, 3, 5, 7, 9],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[]);
line(x, y2, 'Color', 'r', 'LineStyle', '-', 'Marker', '.', 'Parent', ax2)
ax3 = axes('Position',get(ax1,'Position'),...
'XAxisLocation','bottom',...
'YAxisLocation','right',...
'Color','none',...
'XColor','k',...
'YColor','g',...
'YLim',[0,100],...
'YTick',[0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[]);
line(x, y3, 'Color', 'g', 'LineStyle', '-', 'Marker', '.', 'Parent', ax3)
ax4 = axes('Position',get(ax1,'Position'),...
'XAxisLocation','bottom',...
'YAxisLocation','right',...
'Color','none',...
'XColor','k',...
'YColor','c',...
'YLim',[0,100],...
'YTick',[10, 30, 50, 70, 90],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[]);
line(x, y4, 'Color', 'c', 'LineStyle', '-', 'Marker', '.', 'Parent', ax4)
(source: pablorodriguez.info)
PLOTYY allows two different y-axes. Or you might look into LayerPlot from the File Exchange. I guess I should ask if you've considered using HOLD or just rescaling the data and using regular old plot?
OLD, not what the OP was looking for:
SUBPLOT allows you to break a figure window into multiple axes. Then if you want to have only one x-axis showing, or some other customization, you can manipulate each axis independently.
In your case there are 3 extra y axis (4 in total) and the best code that could be used to achieve what you want and deal with other cases is illustrated above:
clear
clc
x = linspace(0,1,10);
N = numel(x);
y = rand(1,N);
y_extra_1 = 5.*rand(1,N)+5;
y_extra_2 = 50.*rand(1,N)+20;
Y = [y;y_extra_1;y_extra_2];
xLimit = [min(x) max(x)];
xWidth = xLimit(2)-xLimit(1);
numberOfExtraPlots = 2;
a = 0.05;
N_ = numberOfExtraPlots+1;
for i=1:N_
L=1-(numberOfExtraPlots*a)-0.2;
axesPosition = [(0.1+(numberOfExtraPlots*a)) 0.1 L 0.8];
if(i==1)
color = [rand(1),rand(1),rand(1)];
figure('Units','pixels','Position',[200 200 1200 600])
axes('Units','normalized','Position',axesPosition,...
'Color','w','XColor','k','YColor',color,...
'XLim',xLimit,'YLim',[min(Y(i,:)) max(Y(i,:))],...
'NextPlot','add');
plot(x,Y(i,:),'Color',color);
xlabel('Time (s)');
ylab = strcat('Values of dataset 0',num2str(i));
ylabel(ylab)
numberOfExtraPlots = numberOfExtraPlots - 1;
else
color = [rand(1),rand(1),rand(1)];
axes('Units','normalized','Position',axesPosition,...
'Color','none','XColor','k','YColor',color,...
'XLim',xLimit,'YLim',[min(Y(i,:)) max(Y(i,:))],...
'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[],'NextPlot','add');
V = (xWidth*a*(i-1))/L;
b=xLimit+[V 0];
x_=linspace(b(1),b(2),10);
plot(x_,Y(i,:),'Color',color);
ylab = strcat('Values of dataset 0',num2str(i));
ylabel(ylab)
numberOfExtraPlots = numberOfExtraPlots - 1;
end
end
The code above will produce something like this:
I'm using Matlab to produce figures, and I'm wondering if there is a way to plot a zoomed region in a figure of the overall data?
I have scatter data plotted over one week, with the x-axis in hours, and I want to zoom into the first 3 hours, and display them within the main figure with the x-axis label of minutes.
The plotting code I have so far is as follows:
allvalsx = marabint(:,2)
allvalsy = marabint(:,5)
subvalsx = marabint(1:7,2);
subvalsy = marabint(1:7,2);
%% Plots the scatter chart.
sizemarker = 135
handle = scatter(allvalsx, allvalsy, sizemarker, '.')
figure(1)
axes('Position',[.2 .2 .2 .2])
handle2 = scatter(subvalsx, subvalsy, '.r')
title(plotTitle)
xlabel('Time since treatment (hours)')
ylabel('Contact angle (deg)')
% Axis scales x1, x2, y1, y2
axis([0, marabint(length(marabint),2) + 10, 0, 120]);
% This adds a red horizontal line indicating the untreated angle of the
% sample.
untreatedLine = line('XData', [0 marabint(length(marabint),2) + 10], 'YData', [untreatedAngle untreatedAngle], 'LineStyle', '-', ...
'LineWidth', 1, 'Color','r');
% Adding a legend to the graph
legendInfo = horzcat('Untreated angle of ', untreatedString)
hleg1 = legend(untreatedLine, legendInfo);
% This encases the plot in a box
a = gca;
% set box property to off and remove background color
set(a,'box','off','color','none')
% create new, empty axes with box but without ticks
b = axes('Position',get(a,'Position'),'box','on','xtick',[],'ytick',[]);
% set original axes as active
axes(a)
% link axes in case of zooming
linkaxes([a b])
set(gcf,'PaperUnits','inches');
set(gcf,'PaperSize', [8.267 5.25]);
set(gcf,'PaperPosition',[0 0.2625 8.267 4.75]);
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','Manual');
set(handle,'Marker','.');
print(gcf, '-dpdf', '-r150', horzcat('markertest4.pdf'));
This produces the following
Can anyone help me out with this?
yeah, I think I know what you need. Try this:
zoomStart = 0;
zoomStop = 3;
set(gca, 'XLim', [zoomStart zoomStop])
Let me know if that doesn't do what you need, and I'll give you a different way.
I am trying to add a grey shaded area between two user-defined vertical lines. I need this gray shaded area to appear beneath my already plotted data. I have tried using the fill and area functions, but haven't been able to successfully create a bounded area to appear underneath the Matlab plot. I need the shaded area plot to extend from the x-axis at vertical lines created at 5.5 and 19 and extend up to the y-axis at 900 (left y-axis) and at 1 (right y-axis). See here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyzkuhw17yxn8p5/sample.png
I suppose the problem does not lie in generating the shaded area, but in making it appear below other elements of the plot even though it gets plotted later. You can achieve that by locating it "deeper", i.e. at a smaller z-value. Here is an example, building on the code by randomatlabuser:
x = linspace(0, 24, 100);
plot(x, 450 - 400 * cos(x / 12 * pi), 'k.-')
hold all
x = [5.5 5.5 19 19 5.5];
y = [0 900 900 0 0];
patch(x, y, -1 * ones(size(x)), [0.9 0.9 0.9], 'LineStyle', 'none')
patch is essentially the same as fill, but has a version that supports a third coordinate, the z-value.
From what I understand you want to do this:
h1 = plot((0:24), (0:700/24:700), '-b', 'LineWidth', 10); % some function
hold on
h2 = plot((0:24), 1.5 * (0:24) .^2, '-r', 'LineWidth', 10); % some other function
x = [5.5 5.5 19 19 5.5]; y = [0 900 900 0 0]; % define edges of area
h3 = fill(x, y, [0.9 0.9 0.9], 'LineStyle', 'none'); % fill area
set(gca, 'Children', [h1 h2 h3]) % h3 in the background, then h2 and finally h1 upfront
If not, you need to explain better what you are after.
% Add shaded area to plot
% Line 1
hl1 = line(x1,y1,'Color','b');
x = [5.5 5.5 19 19]; y = [0 900 900 0]; % define edges of shaded area
% Locations for 5:30am and 19:00pm with the left y-axis ranging from 0-900
hl2=fill([x(1) x(2) x(3) x(4)], [y(1) y(2) y(3) y(4)],'Color','r','EdgeColor','none','LineStyle','none');
hl1 = line(x1,y1,'Color','b'); % Replot line 1 over shaded area
hold on;
% Continue adding more shaded areas using the fill function or add lines directly...
The code below works fine as is, however I need to be able to change the start and end dates to be any given calendar date. So rather than run from 2002:2003 I would like to have it run from '15/Aug/2001' to '14/Aug/2002'. In addition I would like the y-axis to display these new dates.
The actual number of days between then will not be the same as calendar says but rather 255 days (in this case) I will have to enter the information manually.
It seems to be datetick can help but I cannot get it to fit into the framework below:
I know I've already asked a few questions on this piece of code but this will be the last one!
tchange=(1/(255-1));
x = 2002:tchange:2003; % x data
grad_ = rand(1,length(x))*.3; % graduated stuff
grad_2 = rand(1,length(x))*.3;
grad_3= rand(1,length(x))*.3;
h = subplot(1,3,1);
%plot(grad_,x); % flip x and y for vertical plot
herrorbar(grad_,x,grad_2,grad_3,'.');
axis(h, [0 0.5 2002 2003])
set(h, 'Ytick', x(1):x(end), 'Xtick', 0:.1:.5, 'YDir','reverse', 'YGrid', 'on');
xlabel('Gradient Search')
diff_ = rand(1,length(x)).^2 *.15; % differential stuff
h = subplot(1,3,2);
herrorbar(diff_,x,grad_2,grad_3,'.');
%plot(diff_,x);
set(h,'yticklabel',[], 'Ytick', x(1):x(end), 'Xtick', 0:.1:.5, 'YDir','reverse', 'YGrid', 'on');
axis(h, [0 0.5 2002 2003])
xlabel('Differential Evolution')
delta_ = rand(1,length(x)).^2 *.2 - .2; % delta stuff
h = subplot(1,3,3);
%plot(delta_,x);
stem(x,delta_median_LP(1:npoints,1),'Marker','.');
axis(h, [2002 2003 -.5 .5])
set(h,'Xtick', -.5:.5:.5, 'XGrid', 'on');
view(90,90);
ylabel('\Delta of medians')
You should be able to use MATLAB's datenum function, combined with the datetick function. For instance, for the first plot, you could do the following:
x = datenum(2001,8,15):datenum(2002,8,14); % x data
grad_ = rand(1,length(x))*.3; % graduated stuff
grad_2 = rand(1,length(x))*.3;
grad_3= rand(1,length(x))*.3;
h = subplot(1,3,1);
plot(grad_,x); % flip x and y for vertical plot
% herrorbar(grad_,x,grad_2,grad_3,'.');
axis(h, [0 0.5 x(1) x(end)])
set(h, 'Xtick', 0:.1:.5, 'YDir','reverse', 'YGrid', 'on');
datetick('y',24,'keeplimits');
xlabel('Gradient Search')
I remove the ytick part of the set command so that it uses the default, which isn't too bad in this case, but you could set it to whatever you wanted.