Graphics functions

The graphics module provides functions for creating, customizing, and managing plots, figures, colormaps, and graphical objects.

It includes 2-D and 3-D visualization, user interaction tools (zoom, pan, rotate), and utilities for working with colors, legends, axes, and text annotations.

abyss
Abyss colormap array.
ancestor
Ancestor of graphics object.
autumn
Autumn colormap array.
axes
Create cartesian axes.
axis
Set axis limits and aspect ratios.
bar
Bar graph.
bone
Bone colormap array.
cla
Clear axes.
clf
Clear figure.
clim
Set colormap limits.
close
Close one or more figures
colorbar
Colorbar showing color scale.
colormap
View and set current colormap.
colormaplist
Provide list of colormaps.
colstyle
Parse color and style from string.
contour
Contour plot of matrix
contour3
Contour 3D plot of matrix
cool
Cool colormap array.
copper
Copper colormap array.
cylinder
Create cylinder.
drawnow
Update figures and process callbacks
figure
Creates an figure window.
fill
Create filled 2-D patches.
flag
Flag colormap array.
frame2im
Retrieve image data from a movie frame.
gca
get current axes graphics object.
gcf
get current figure graphics object.
getframe
Capture figure or axes as movie frame.
Managing Callback Interruptions in Nelson
gray
Gray colormap array.
grid
Display or hide axes grid lines.
groot
graphic root object.
hggroup
Create group object.
hist
Histogram plot.
hold
Retain current plot when adding new plots.
hot
Hot colormap array.
im2frame
Convert image to movie frame.
image
Display image from array.
imagesc
Display image from array with scaled colors.
imshow
Display image.
is2D
Checks if ax is a 2-D Polar or Cartesian axes.
isValidGraphicsProperty
Check property name is valid.
isgraphics
Check for graphics object.
ishold
Get current hold state.
jet
Jet colormap array.
legend
Add legend to axes.
line
Create primitive line.
loglog
Log-log scale plot.
mesh
Mesh surface plot.
meshz
Mesh surface plot with curtain.
movie
Render recorded movie frames.
nebula
Nebula colormap array.
newplot
Prepare to produce a new plot.
pan
Enable pan mode.
parula
Parula colormap array.
patch
Create patches of colored polygons
pcolor
Pseudocolor plot.
pie
Legacy pie chart.
pink
Pink colormap array.
plot
Linear 2-D plot.
plot3
3-D line plot.
prism
Prism colormap array.
quiver
Vector plot.
refresh
Redraw current figure.
rgbplot
Plot colormap.
ribbon
Ribbon plot.
rotate3d
Enable rotate mode.
scatter
Scatter plot.
scatter3
3D Scatter plot.
semilogx
Semilog plot (x-axis has log scale).
semilogy
Semilog plot (y-axis has log scale).
sky
Sky colormap array.
sphere
Create sphere.
spring
Spring colormap array.
spy
Visualize sparsity pattern of matrix.
stairs
Stairstep graph.
stem
Plot discrete sequence data.
subplot
Create axes in tiled positions.
summer
Summer colormap array.
surf
surface plot.
surface
Primitive surface plot.
text
creates text descriptions to data points.
title
Add title.
turbo
Turbo colormap array.
uicontrol
Create user interface component.
validatecolor
Validate color values.
view
Camera line of sigh.
viridis
Viridis colormap array.
waitfor
Wait for condition.
waitforbuttonpress
Wait for click or key press.
waterfall
waterfall plot.
white
white colormap array.
winter
Winter colormap array.
xlabel
Label x-axis.
xlim
set or get x-axis limits.
ylabel
Label y-axis.
ylim
set or get y-axis limits.
zlabel
Label z-axis.
zlim
set or get z-axis limits.
zoom
Enable zoom mode.