how to change axis sizes in Matlab - matlab

I have a plot like this
How can I change the length of y axis to [0 20] in order to have bigger plot size.
Assume I want x axis [0 20]
y axis [0 20]

Immediately after the plot command:
set(gca, 'ylim', [0 20], 'xlim', [0 20]);

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Plotting an image on the sides of a cube

I want to display an image onto a cube. The original image should not be changed, neither in size, nor in color.
The code is as follows:
cdata = flip( imread('1234.jpg'), 1 );
% imshow(cdata)
cdatar = flip( cdata, 2 );
% bottom
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );
% top
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [1 1; 1 1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );
% font
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );
% back
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [1 1; 1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );
% left
surface([-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );
% right
surface([1 1; 1 1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );
% E1 = 24;
% for z = 0:360
% view(z,E1)
% pause(0.1)
% end
view(3);
This is the image I want to display:
The color has been changed and and the image resized:
How can I display this image on the cube without resizing or changing color?
You explicitly plot your image on the range [-1 1] on every axis, i.e. it's a perfect cube. Having your image on a face of a cube will be a square, whereas your image is a rectangle. Either don't use a cube to plot it on, or zero-pad the sides to make it appear only in the middle. Calculate the ratio of your image, retain the height, pad (height-width)/2 zeros (or ones, depending on the desired colour) on both sides to end up with a square matrix.
MATLAB used the default colour map, parula. Given you have a binary image, the easiest would be to define a colour map as:
% You might need to flip zeros and ones for the colours
my_colur_map = [0 0 0 ; 1 1 1];
figure;
surface(...)
colormap(my_colour_map)
In other words: create a custom colour map with only two colours: black and white.

Plot data ignoring some X-axis values on Matlab

I'm trying to plot some data on Matlab using the following code:
x = [1 2 5 6 7 9]
y1 = [1 2 3 2 1 2]
y2 = [2 2 2 1 3 3]
y3 = [1 1 2 3 1 1]
plot(x,y1,'--.','markersize',20); hold on;
plot(x,y2,'--.','markersize',20); hold on;
plot(x,y3,'--.','markersize',20); hold off;
legend('y1','y2','y3');
xlim([1 9]);
ylim([0 4]);
And I'm getting the following result:
Note that I have no Y values for the X positions 3, 4 and 8, but the X axis is still showing these X values in the graph.
There is some way that I can ignore the positions 3, 4 and 8 in the X-axis, and show only the Y values for the X positions 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9?
I can use the following command to 'hide' these positions:
set(gca, 'XTick', x);
But the gaps related to these positions are still there.
Update:
This is the graph I'm trying to create (it was created on paint):
Note: in my case, the X-axis just represents the IDs of some images, and because of that I just need to show the numbers.
You can get the plot you want by first leaving x out in the calls to plot (so it plots against the array index) then altering the XTick and XTickLabel properties of the axes (and adjusting the x limit slightly):
plot(y1,'--.','markersize',20); hold on;
plot(y2,'--.','markersize',20);
plot(y3,'--.','markersize',20);
legend('y1','y2','y3');
xlim([1 numel(x)]); % Note numel is used here
ylim([0 4]);
set(gca, 'XTick', 1:numel(x), 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(x(:))));
I am not sure if you need gaps between plot lines. If you wish no values to be plotted there, try replacing the values by nan. For example,
x = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
y1 = [1 2 nan nan 3 2 1 nan 2]
y2 = [2 2 nan nan 2 1 3 nan 3]
y3 = [1 1 nan nan 2 3 1 nan 1]
plot(x,y1,'--.','markersize',20); hold on;
plot(x,y2,'--.','markersize',20); hold on;
plot(x,y3,'--.','markersize',20); hold off;
legend('y1','y2','y3');
xlim([1 9]);
ylim([0 4]);
This will give a plot like this:
Sounds like you need stem.
stem(x, y1);
legend('y1');

Contour colors don't correspond to color bar when a surf plot is added

Below is some code that recreates my problem as simplified as I can make it. It does a subplot with two plots, you'll notice the plot on the right (contour only) has the correct correlation between the contour colors and the color bar but when a surface is added (left plot) the colors no longer match up.
Notes:
I've tried contourslice but I get the same results. I've posted the code for that below too.
How far off the colors are seems to depend on the values of the contour data itself. If you replace my contour data with peaks, it works fine. However this does not solve the underlying problem.
Code using contour:
clear all; close all; clc
%define box coordinates
bx = [0 1 1 0 0;0 1 1 0 0]-.5;
by = [0 0 1 1 0;0 0 1 1 0]-.5;
bz = [0 0 0 0 0;1 1 1 1 1]-.5;
%make contour data
[x,y] = meshgrid(-1:.5:1,-1:.5:1);
con = (x.^2+y.^2);
figure(1)
subplot(1,2,1)
box = surf(bx,by,bz); %draw box
set(box,'FaceColor',[1 1 1],'FaceAlpha',1,'EdgeAlpha',0,'EdgeColor',[.5 .5 .5])
hold on
camlight(30,70)
contour(x,y,con) %draw contour
colorbar
axis([-1 1 -1 1 -1 1])
axis equal
subplot(1,2,2)
contour(x,y,con)
axis([-1 1 -1 1])
axis equal
colorbar
set(gcf,'outerposition',[150 150 800 300])
Code using contourslice instead of contour (same problem)
clear all; close all; clc
%define box coordinates
bx = [0 1 1 0 0;0 1 1 0 0]-.5;
by = [0 0 1 1 0;0 0 1 1 0]-.5;
bz = [0 0 0 0 0;1 1 1 1 1]-.5;
x = -1:.5:1;
y = x;
z = x;
%make contour data
[xg,yg,zg] = ndgrid(x,y,z);
V = 3-(xg.^2+yg.^2+zg.^2);
figure(1)
subplot(1,2,1)
box = surf(bx,by,bz); %draw box
set(box,'FaceColor',[1 1 1],'FaceAlpha',1,'EdgeAlpha',0,'EdgeColor',[.5 .5 .5])
hold on
camlight(30,70)
contourslice(x,y,z,V,[],[],0) %draw contour
colorbar
axis([-1 1 -1 1 -1 1])
axis equal
subplot(1,2,2)
contour(x,y,V(:,:,3))
axis([-1 1 -1 1])
axis equal
colorbar
set(gcf,'outerposition',[150 150 800 300])
Thanks for your help!
Just set the caxis property as you wish:
colorbar
caxis([0 2])
...
colorbar
caxis([0 2])
The problem was probably caused, because the surf plot changed the color determining values of your plot. By setting a fixed color axis you can avoid all misinterpretations.

Shading a rectangle

Consider the rectangle formed by the vertices (0, 0), (0, 10), (1, 10), and (1, 0). How would I shade it red in MATLAB?
Note. For some reason, none of the mentioned shadings here works.
You can do that for example with patch:
vertices = [0 0; 0 10; 1 10; 1 0];
patch(vertices(1:end,1), vertices(1:end,2), [1 .2 .2], 'edgecolor', [0 0 0]);
%// [1 .2 .2] is light red for the fill; [1 1 1] is black for the edge
axis([-1 2 -10 20]); %// set axis limits to properly see rectangle

Modifying subplot axes in matlab

I'm plotting 2 subplots, and I want each subplot to have different axis scaling.
My current code is:
subplot(2,1,1)
axis([0 20 0 1])
plot(t,Ca,'-.',t,Cb,'.',t,Cc);
subplot(2,1,2)
axis([0 5 0 1]);
plot(t2,Ca2,'-.',t2,Cb2,'.',t2,Cc2);
But both subplots plot as if no axis was specified.
Any ideas?
Try:
subplot(2,1,1)
plot(t,Ca,'-.',t,Cb,'.',t,Cc);
axis([0 20 0 1])
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(t2,Ca2,'-.',t2,Cb2,'.',t2,Cc2);
axis([0 5 0 1]);
plot will refigure the axes, so you have to call axis AFTER the last plot.