johnyf / plot_utils

Vectorized and other plotting MATLAB functions

Plotting Utilities for MATLAB

Summary

Vectorized and other convenience plotting functions. Licensed under the 2-clause BSD.

Description

These functions were developed over time to support my research. The vectorized ones aim to make vector field codes brief, coordinate-free, clear and readable. The more interesting are:

• plotmd, quivermd, textmd for common 2D and 3D calls, no name headaches with MATLAB calls, clean multi-dim lib, some previously published here and here
• vsurf, vcontour, vcontourf and vezsurf, vezcontour, ezquiver for vectorized surf, contour plots using a matrix of column vectors (points) and its mesh size
• plot_scalings for auto scaling fig based on contents, good for publication-ready results
• plot_subsample functions to reduce the number of curve markers, w/o reducing curve fidelity, this aims to avoid huge image files that lead to PDF file sizes rejected when uploading to conference servers
• tex_plot_annot for LaTeX axis labels, title and legend, previously published here
• plotidy shorthand to auto-scale, LaTeX-annotate and grid at once
• assign_cmaps to set different colormaps for two sets of surfaces
• colorbar_annotated to add units to the colorbar
• take and restore hold to add graphics objects w/o affecting current fig hold status, previously published here
• vectorized grid, hold, cla, view for managing multiple axes at once, some previously published here
• newax to create multiple new axes
• sloc_pie for SLOC pie plots of results returned by CLOC

Installation

Add the directory tree of this package to your MATLAB path. Some functions have fex dependencies. No dependency is OS-specific.