A Matlab library to handle matlab graphic objects ergonomically, including common axes, plots, colors, transparency functions.
So what's wrong with the original functions/commands?
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Well, first of all, I don't like to track what graphic objects is active all the time in my mind, and it could be a bit hard to tell when you're inside of a function. Therefore, in this library, graphic objects such as axes or figures are required as the argument (usually the first one) for a graphic function.
The other thing is that commands like hold on is not symmetric, usually it's used like this.
some_plotting(some_data, options);
hold on
some_other_plotting(some_data, options);
some_more_plotting(some_data, options);
hold offIt visually doesn't look like these plots are acting on the same object. I'd like to have them grouped like this.
openax(ax)
some_plotting(ax, some_data, options);
some_other_plotting(ax, some_data, options);
some_more_plotting(ax, some_data, options);
shutax(ax)And I want to avoid clearing what's already been plot, I use keepax instead of openax. This way it's very clear that this cluster of code is all working on this plot.
Another benefit is that you can plot on two things at once.
openax([ax1, ax2])
some_plotting(ax_1, some_data, options);
some_other_plotting(ax_1, some_data, options);
some_other_plotting_on_2(ax_2, modify_form(some_data), options);
some_more_plotting(ax_1, some_data, options);
shutax([ax1, ax2])I've also add a function setaxis to create and return an axes directly, meanwhile setting the figure's number and title.
Some methods for clearing all objects in a figure, which is not trivial.
I don't think there is a good method to create an array of colors with a variation on hue in Matlab. Here are some functions that help representing data with colors in a slightly more flexible way (Although now there are better color sciences than the simple HSL that I use). You can use clrcvars to just vary on hue, or clrmapquery to interpolate on any colormap. This library includes the magnificent Crameri perceptually uniform scientific colormap library as a submodule.
Also, colorbar can behave unexpectedly and spawn several times and overlap. Use clrbarifnone to make sure that only one appears.
Some helper functions on common plots.