hist3 plot with additional z axis - matlab

Question

The following code creates a 2D stacked histogram for two 2D distributions:
%%first dataset
x1 = 200 + 300.*rand(1000,1)'; %rand values between 0 and 200
y1 = 100 + 250.*rand(1000,1)'; %rand values between 100 and 500
%%secnd dataset
x2 = 100 + 200.*rand(1000,1)'; %rand values between 0 and 200
y2 = 200 + 400.*rand(1000,1)'; %rand values between 100 and 500
one = linspace(100,400,20);
two = linspace(100,500,20);
EDGES = {one, two}; %edges
[n1,c1] = hist3([x1' y1'],'Edges',EDGES);%first dataset
[n2,c2] = hist3([x2' y2'],'Edges',EDGES);%second dataset
figure('Color','w');
% plot the first data set
bh=bar3(n1);
% Loop through each row and shift bars upwards
for ii=1:length(bh)
zz = get(bh(ii),'Zdata');
kk = 1;
% Bars are defined by 6 faces(?), adding values from data2 will
% shift the bars upwards accordingly, I'm sure this could be made
% better!
for jj = 0:6:(6*length(bh)-6)
zz(jj+1:jj+6,:)=zz(jj+1:jj+6,:)+n2(kk,ii);
kk=kk+1;
end
%erase zero height bars
%# get the ZData matrix of the current group
Z = get(bh(ii), 'ZData');
%# row-indices of Z matrix. Columns correspond to each rectangular bar
rowsInd = reshape(1:size(Z,1), 6,[]);
%# find bars with zero height
barsIdx = all([Z(2:6:end,2:3) Z(3:6:end,2:3)]==0, 2);
%# replace their values with NaN for those bars
Z(rowsInd(:,barsIdx),:) = NaN;
%# update the ZData
set(bh(ii), 'ZData',Z)
end
% Set face colour to blue for data1
set(bh,'FaceColor',[0 0 1]);
% Apply hold so that data2 can be plotted
hold on;
% Plot data2
bh=bar3(n2);
%erase zero height bars
for ii=1:numel(bh)
%# get the ZData matrix of the current group
Z = get(bh(ii), 'ZData');
%# row-indices of Z matrix. Columns correspond to each rectangular bar
rowsInd = reshape(1:size(Z,1), 6,[]);
%# find bars with zero height
barsIdx = all([Z(2:6:end,2:3) Z(3:6:end,2:3)]==0, 2);
%# replace their values with NaN for those bars
Z(rowsInd(:,barsIdx),:) = NaN;
%# update the ZData
set(bh(ii), 'ZData',Z)
end
% Set face color to red
set(bh,'FaceColor',[1 0 0]);
%set ticks
set(gca,'XTick',1:6:numel(one),'XTickLabel',one(1:6:end))
set(gca,'YTick',1:6:numel(one),'YTickLabel',one(1:6:end))
view(20,40)
%labels
xlabel('x')
ylabel('y')
zlabel('z')
%set transparency
set(gcf,'renderer','opengl');
set(get(gca,'child'),'FaceAlpha',0.8);
set(get(gca,'child'),'EdgeAlpha',0.3);
A first issue is the transparency (but I think it is a problem of my matlab version 2014a, so I am not bothered by that). It just makes all blurry.
My question is how to add a mesh plot on the same picture. The code creating the meshes is the following:
%create surface I want to plot
[X,Y] = meshgrid(one,two);
inds1=find(X(:).*Y(:)<.3e5);%condition
inds2=find(X(:).*Y(:)>.3e5);
I=Y./X.^2;%first surface
I(inds1)=NaN;%second surface
figure('Color','w');hold on
mesh(X,Y,I,'FaceColor',[0 0 1],'EdgeColor','none')
I(:,:)=NaN;
I(inds1)=Y(inds1)./X(inds1);%second surface
mesh(X,Y,I,'FaceColor',[1 0 0],'EdgeColor','none')
alpha(.5)
grid on
view(20,40)
%labels
xlabel('x')
ylabel('y')
zlabel('z')
The domain of the histograms and the meshes are the same. So I just need to add an extra z-axis on the first figure.
I tried substituting figure('Color','w');hold on in the second code with AxesH = axes('NextPlot', 'add');, but I was really wrong about that:
That just overlayed the two figures..
I also tried something along the lines of:
%add axis
axesPosition = get(gca,'Position'); %# Get the current axes position
hNewAxes = axes('Position',axesPosition,... %# Place a new axes on top...
'Color','none',... %# ... with no background color
'ZLim',[0 400],... %# ... and a different scale
'ZAxisLocation','right',... %# ... located on the right
'XTick',[],... %# ... with no x tick marks
'YTick',[],... %# ... with no y tick marks
'Box','off');
but it is not feasible because the property ZAxisLocation does not exist.
Does anyone know how to add the z-axis?
Also, if you have other comments on how to ameliorate the code, they're welcome!
acknowledgements
2d stacked histogram:https://stackoverflow.com/a/17477348/3751931
erasing the zero values in the hist plot: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17477348/3751931

Answer 1

I now think that this is not yet possible (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/95949-is-there-a-function-to-include-two-3-d-plots-with-different-z-axes-on-the-same-plot-area-similar-to).
So I just added a fake axis:
[X,Y] = meshgrid(one,two);
inds1=find(X(:).*Y(:)<.3e5);%condition
inds2=find(X(:).*Y(:)>.3e5);
s=Y./X.^2;%first surface
s(inds1)=NaN;%second surface
%mesh(X,Y,I,'FaceColor',[0 0 1],'EdgeColor','none')
mesh((X-min(min(X)))/max(max(X-min(min(X))))*20,(Y-min(min(Y)))/max(max(Y-min(min(Y))))*20,...
s/max(max(s))*max(max(n1))+max(max(n1)),'FaceColor','g','EdgeColor','none','facealpha',.5)
s(:,:)=NaN;
s(inds1)=Y(inds1)./X(inds1);%second surface
%mesh(X,Y,I,'FaceColor',[1 0 0],'EdgeColor','none')
mesh((X-min(min(X)))/max(max(X-min(min(X))))*20,(Y-min(min(Y)))/max(max(Y-min(min(Y))))*20,...
s/max(max(s))*max(max(n1))+max(max(n1)),'FaceColor','y','EdgeColor','none','facealpha',.5)
alpha(.5)
grid on
%add fake z axis
line([20 20],[1 1],[max(max(n1))-min(min(s)) 20],...
'color','g','linewidth',2)
% text(20*ones(1,5),zeros(1,5),linspace(max(max(n1))-min(min(I)),20,5),...
% num2str(linspace(0,max(max(I)),5)),'color','g')
z=linspace(max(max(n1))-min(min(s)),20,5);
txto=linspace(0,max(max(s)),5);
for ii=1:5
line([20 20.3],[1 1],[z(ii) z(ii)],'color','g')%ticks
text(20,0,z(ii),num2str(txto(ii)),'color','g')%ticklabel
end
text(19.8,1,21,'s','color','g')%label
Over all the code is quite ugly and needs a lot of tuning..