Graphics > Formatting and Annotation

115 functions in MATLAB › Graphics > Formatting and Annotation.

Colormaps

`abyss`	Returns the abyss colormap, which runs from dark navy to a bright blue.
`autumn`	Returns the autumn colormap, a ramp from red through orange to yellow.
`bone`	Returns the bone colormap, a gray scale with a slight blue tint.
`brighten`	Makes a colormap brighter or darker.
`clim`	Gets or sets the color limits of the current axes.
`colorbar`	Adds a color bar that shows how data values map to colors.
`colorcube`	Returns the colorcube colormap, a set of regularly spaced RGB colors.
`colormap`	Gets or sets the colormap, the table that turns data values into colors.
`contrast`	Returns a gray colormap that enhances the contrast of an image.
`cool`	Returns the cool colormap, a ramp from cyan to magenta.
`copper`	Returns the copper colormap, a ramp from black to a light copper tone.
`flag`	Colormap that cycles through red, white, blue and black.
`gray`	Colormap of linear shades of gray, from black to white.
`hot`	Colormap that goes from black through red and yellow to white.
`hsv`	Colormap that sweeps through the hue circle at full saturation and value.
`hsv2rgb`	Converts colors from hue-saturation-value to red-green-blue.
`jet`	Colormap that runs from dark blue through cyan, yellow and orange to dark red.
`lines`	Colormap made of the default line colors of the axes.
`parula`	Default colormap: a smooth progression from dark blue through teal and green to yellow.
`pink`	Sepia-toned colormap that goes from black through pink to white.
`prism`	Colormap that repeats the six colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
`rgb2hsv`	Converts colors from red-green-blue to hue-saturation-value.
`rgbplot`	Plots the red, green and blue columns of a colormap as three lines.
`sky`	Colormap of sky blues, from a pale tone to a deep blue.
`spring`	Colormap that shades from magenta to yellow.
`summer`	Colormap that shades from green to yellow.
`turbo`	Rainbow-style colormap with more even lightness than `jet`.
`winter`	Colormap that shades from blue to green.

3-D Scene Control

`alim`	Gets or sets the alpha (transparency) limits of the current axes.
`alpha`	Sets the transparency of faces of surfaces, patches and images in the current axes.
`alphamap`	Gets or sets the alphamap, the table that turns data values into transparency.
`camdolly`	Moves the camera position and target together, as a camera would on a dolly.
`camlight`	Creates or moves a light source relative to the camera.
`camlookat`	Moves the camera and target so that given objects fill the view.
`camorbit`	Rotates the camera around the camera target.
`campan`	Rotates the camera target around the camera position.
`campos`	Gets or sets the camera position of the current axes.
`camproj`	Gets or sets the projection type of the camera.
`camroll`	Rotates the camera around the line of sight.
`camtarget`	Gets or sets the point the camera looks at.
`camup`	Gets or sets the up direction of the camera.
`camva`	Gets or sets the camera view angle of the current axes.
`camzoom`	Zooms the camera in or out by a factor.
`diffuse`	Diffuse (Lambertian) reflectance of a surface for a given light direction.
`light`	Creates a light source in the current axes.
`lightangle`	Creates or moves a light using azimuth and elevation angles.
`lighting`	Selects the lighting method used to shade surfaces and patches.
`makehgtform`	Creates a 4-by-4 transformation matrix for translation, scaling and rotation in 3-D.
`material`	Sets the reflectance properties of surfaces and patches.
`shading`	Sets how color is shaded across surfaces and patches.
`specular`	Specular reflectance of a surface for given light and viewer directions.
`view`	Sets or gets the viewing angle of 3-D axes as azimuth and elevation.
`viewmtx`	Returns the 4-by-4 matrix that projects 3-D points onto the 2-D screen for a given viewpoint.

Labels and Annotations

`annotation`	Adds shapes and text, such as arrows and text boxes, to a figure.
`datatip`	Adds a data tip, a small label showing a data point, to a chart.
`fontname`	Sets the font name of the text in a figure or graphics object.
`fontsize`	Sets the font size of the text in a figure or graphics object.
`legend`	Adds a legend that names the data series of the axes.
`line`	Draws a primitive line through the given points in the current axes.
`rectangle`	Draws a rectangle, rounded rectangle or ellipse in 2-D.
`sgtitle`	Adds one title above a grid of subplots.
`subtitle`	Adds a second, smaller line of text under the title of the axes.
`texlabel`	Converts an expression or Greek-letter text to TeX markup for use in labels.
`text`	Writes text at a position in the axes, in data coordinates.
`title`	Adds a title to the axes, figure layout or chart.
`xlabel`	Adds a label to the x-axis.
`xline`	Draws a vertical line at a given x value across the axes.
`xregion`	Shades a vertical band between two x values.
`ylabel`	Adds a label to the y-axis.
`yline`	Draws a horizontal line at a given y value across the axes.
`yregion`	Shades a horizontal band between two y values.
`zlabel`	Sets the label of the z-axis of a 3-D plot.

Axes Appearance

`axes`	Creates axes in the current figure and can make existing axes current.
`axis`	Sets axis limits and scaling, or gets the current limits.
`box`	Shows or hides the outline around the current axes.
`cla`	Clears the current axes of its graphics objects.
`clf`	Clears the current figure.
`colororder`	Gets or sets the list of colors used to draw successive lines.
`daspect`	Gets or sets the data aspect ratio of the current axes.
`datetick`	Formats axis tick labels as dates.
`figure`	Creates a figure window, or makes an existing one the current figure.
`grid`	Turns the axes grid lines on or off.
`hold`	Keeps existing plots when new ones are added to the same axes.
`nexttile`	Creates axes in the next free tile of a tiled chart layout.
`num2ruler`	Converts numeric values to the data type that an axis ruler uses.
`orderedcolors`	Returns a named set of distinct colors, such as the default line colors.
`pbaspect`	Gets or sets the relative lengths of the x, y and z sides of the axes box.
`plotyy`	Plots two data sets against separate y-axes, left and right (older form of `yyaxis`).
`ruler2num`	Converts values shown on an axis ruler to the numbers the axes store internally.
`subplot`	Divides a figure into a grid and selects one cell for the next plot.
`tiledlayout`	Creates a grid of tiles in the figure to hold several plots.
`tilenum`	Gives the tile number of a given row and column in a tiled layout.
`tilerowcol`	Gives the row and column of a tile, given its number in a tiled layout.
`xlim`	Gets or sets the limits of the x-axis.
`xscale`	Gets or sets the scale of the x-axis, linear or logarithmic.
`xsecondarylabel`	Sets the secondary label of the x-axis.
`xtickangle`	Gets or sets the rotation angle of the x-axis tick labels.
`xtickformat`	Gets or sets the number format of the x-axis tick labels.
`xticklabels`	Gets or sets the text of the x-axis tick labels.
`xticks`	Gets or sets the positions of the x-axis tick marks.
`ylim`	Gets or sets the limits of the y-axis.
`yscale`	Gets or sets the scale of the y-axis, linear or logarithmic.
`ysecondarylabel`	Sets the secondary label of the y-axis.
`ytickangle`	Gets or sets the rotation angle of the y-axis tick labels.
`ytickformat`	Gets or sets the number format of the y-axis tick labels.
`yticklabels`	Gets or sets the text of the y-axis tick labels.
`yticks`	Gets or sets the positions of the y-axis tick marks.
`yyaxis`	Selects the left or right y-axis so one plot can use two different y scales.
`zlim`	Gets or sets the limits of the z-axis.
`zscale`	Chooses a linear or logarithmic scale for the z-axis.
`zsecondarylabel`	Sets the secondary label of the z-axis, shown next to the tick labels.
`ztickangle`	Rotates the tick labels of the z-axis.
`ztickformat`	Sets the numeric format of the z tick labels.
`zticklabels`	Sets or gets the text of the z-axis tick labels.
`zticks`	Sets or gets the positions of the z-axis tick marks.