How do you take one plot and place it in the corner (or anywhere for that matter) of another plot in MATLAB?
I have logarithmic data that has a large white space in the upper right-hand side of the plot. In the white space I would like to overlay a smaller plot containing a zoomed in version of the log plot in that white space (sort of like a magnified view).
Before you tell me it can't be done, I would like to mention that I have seen it in action. If my description is lacking, just let me know and I'll attempt to better describe it to you.
An example:
x = 1:20;
y = randn(size(x));
plot(x, y,'LineWidth',2)
xlabel('x'), ylabel('y'), title('Plot Title')
h = axes('Position', [.15 .65 .2 .2], 'Layer','top');
bar(x,y), title('Bar Title')
axis(h, 'off', 'tight')
You can use axes properties 'position' and 'units' and make them overly. Pay attention to create small axes after big one or use uistack() function so that big does not hide small one.
What you can not do is to make an axes child of another one (like Mathworks do with legend). But you do not need it anyway.
For the second plot you have to use axes and line instead of plot and hold on.
Units as 'normalized' (which is default) allows uniform resizable look when parent figure is being resized (e.g. manually maximized).
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I am trying to line up a plot of a signal with an image where the image has a colorbar. The colorbar causes the axes to be offset horizontally.
My intuitive approach would be to fix the size of figures to something, like in Gnuplot with papersize. However, not sure which would be the best fit here.
To Adjust Scaling to Square in Full Screen Mode of Matlab?
I want to maintain the relations between the two figures. I cannot use squareform in the first figure for some reason, while I can in the latter figure.
Code
figure
ax2=subplot(2,2,2);
plot(mat2gray(pdist(data, 'correlation')));
title('Corr pdist');
cbar2 = colorbar(ax2);
xlim([0 size(mat2gray(pdist(data, 'correlation')),2)]);
set(cbar2, 'Visible', 'off');
ax4=subplot(2,2,4);
imshow(squareform( mat2gray(pdist(data, 'correlation')), 'tomatrix') );
colormap('parula'); colorbar;
title('Square Corr pdist');
Wrong Scaling in Output when Full Screen Mode of Matlab where you see the colorbar method is not sufficient for holding relations as proposed in the answer here about How to Control Relative Size of Figures with Colorbar in Matlab?
Right Scaling in Output when Default View
How can you maintain the square view of figures in the Full Screen Mode of Matlab?
I would simply create a colorbar for the top axes as well and set the visibility to off.
figure;
ax1 = subplot(2,1,1);
ax2 = subplot(2,1,2);
cbar1 = colorbar(ax1);
cbar2 = colorbar(ax2);
set(cbar1, 'Visible', 'off')
The benefit here is that you will get consistent behavior when resizing the figures, etc. because the size and position of the two axes will be rendered in the same way.
The other thing you will need to remember is to keep the axes the same in all aspects. So for example if you have an image in the bottom axes (using imshow), MATLAB by default sets the axes to a square. To get your top plot to also be square you will need to use axis square. Then they will continue to line up.
axis(ax1, 'square')
I use some things from this question get-rid-of-the-white-space-around-matlab-figures-pdf-output to get rid of the white space when saving figure plots and images. This works fine, but my problem is when I use commands like "axis square" or "axis image". Ivt sets TightInset property of corresponding axes to 0 in "y" direction. I mean when I use this:
inset=get(a,'TightInset');
second and fourth numbers in "inset" are always zero, even if I set title and x-label. So in the end I don't see plot titles and x-labels.
Can I fix it somehow? So far I do it manually by adding some suitable number, but it is not convenient.
EDIT: Some more code for example. It displays two histograms.
h=figure;
subplot(121)
bar(bins,histogram1,'hist');
axis square
title('Historgram 1');
xlabel('Intensity');
ylabel('Pixel count');
set(gca,'xlim',[0 1])
subplot(122)
bar(bins,histogram_out,'hist');
axis square
title('Histogram 2');
set(gca,'xlim',[0 1])
xlabel('Intensity');
ylabel('Pixel count');
and if I call
a=get(h,'Children');
for i=1:length(a)
inset=get(a(i),'TightInset');
%...some stuff here
end
those y-related numbers in inset are zeros. If I comment axis square and do this, then inset are correct and it does what I need.
As far as I know when you use 'TightInset' you'll get only the graph or image, axis will be removed. I downloaded a function from mathworks file exchange 'saveTightfigure.m' to solve a similar problem. But I did not needed axes. If you need axes may be you can edit limits set inside the function. I mean you can give a little more space at left and bottom for keeping the axes.
I am creating a candlestick chart representing stock prices. Once created, I want to add green circle showing where/when I am buying the stock.
hold on;
candle(myData.High, myData.Low, myData.Close, myData.Open, '', myData.Date, 'dd/mm/yy');
m = plot(myExecutionTable.BuyDate,myExecutionTable.BuyPrice,'og')
uistack(m)
hold off;
The problem is that if myExecutionTable.BuyPrice has a value between the Open and Close, the circle is not showing up. I guess it is hidden under the candlestick. Hence I tried to use uistack but without success. When I change to
plot(myExecutionTable.BuyDate,myExecutionTable.BuyPrice+100,'og')
the green circle then appears (above the candlestick)
Thanks,
Serge
The easiest way to make sure one graphics object is on top of another (and not below), is to plot it later.
If for some reason you can't do it this way, you can also manipulate the order of the child objects of the axes:
h = get(gca, 'Children');
returns a vector of graphics handles. Exchange handles between positions in this vector (higher index means higher on top), and then write it back using
set(gca, 'Children', h)
I have a 2D plot with many data elements on it covering a extensive area. Although all the data is necessary, I am usually interested on a small element of the plot.
I would like to programmatically focus the view on that element of interest, while allowing to use the zoom tool ((-) in the GUI) to fastly go back to a wider perspective.
It is easy to use set(gca, 'xlim', [limitsXOfSmallElement]) and set(gca, 'ylim', [limitsYOfSmallElement]) to set axis limits so that the small element is in focus, but this makes impossible to use the GUI (-) zoom tool to go back to the general view without manually resetting back axis limits to original values.
My intuition is that this could be solved by controlling camera properties (CameraPosition, CameraTarget and/or CameraViewAngle), but when I apply them, posterior uses of the GUI zoom tool have weird effects on the axis, as changing its position and size on the figure.
Is there a good method for setting the fragment of the 2D canvas that is displayed in the axis?
Consider the following example:
function example_zoom
%# some plot
plot(1:10)
hAx = gca;
%# save original axis limits
setappdata(hAx, 'limits',get(gca,{'XLim','YLim'}))
%# create custom toolbar button
[X,map] = imread(fullfile(toolboxdir('matlab'),'icons','view_zoom_out.gif'));
icon = ind2rgb(X,map);
uipushtool('CData',icon, 'ClickedCallback',{#click_cb,hAx});
%# zoom
uiwait(msgbox('Zooming now, click button to reset', 'modal'))
set(gca, 'XLim',[3 7], 'YLim',[2 9])
%zoom on
end
function click_cb(o,e, hAx)
%# restore original axis limits
limits = getappdata(hAx, 'limits');
set(hAx, 'XLim',limits{1}, 'YLim',limits{2})
end
The idea is to create your own toolbar button that restores the axis limits to their original values.
I have created a simple polar plot like this:
polar(direction, power, 'k.')
title('this is my title')
Only the title overlaps the numbers at the top of the circle.
How do I shift the plot down / title up or create room to do so? I would have thought MATLAB would adjust itself automatically?
You can modify the call to title so that it returns a handle, which you can then use to adjust the position.
t = title('this is my title');
get(t,'Position')
ans =
-0.0024 1.1810 1.0001
set(t,'Position',get(t,'Position')+[0 .01 0]); % move up slightly
The default position of the title is expressed as a fraction relative to the current plot axes, which are based on the figure window size. So you may see overlap if the window is small. Enlarging the window may solve the problem for you without the need for doing anything else.
You can also shift the plot around by adjusting its Position -- but since the title's position is fixed to the plot axes, the title will just shift with the plot. But this can be useful with the solution above if the space above the plot is crowded.
get(gca,'Position')
ans =
0.1300 0.1100 0.7750 0.8150
set(gca,'Position',[.13,.10,.775,.815]); % move plot down a bit
For what it is worth, you can also place text in an arbitrary position using the 'text' command.