mtexColorMap edit page

set the colormap of an MTEX plot

Description

Without a handle, or with a figure handle, the colormap is applied to every axes of that figure - an mtexFigure holding e.g. several ODF sections is one figure, so all of its sections share the colour scale, which is what a common scale for one function should do. To give the subplots of a figure different colormaps - several different ODFs next to each other, say - pass the individual axes handle instead:

plot(odf1); ax1 = gca;
nextAxis; plot(odf2); ax2 = gca;
mtexColorMap(ax1,'hot'); mtexColorMap(ax2,'jet');

Syntax

mtexColorMap white2black       % every axes of the current figure
mtexColorMap(gcf,'white2black')
mtexColorMap(ax,'white2black') % one axes only
mtexColorMap(ax,map)           % an n × 3 matrix of rgb values

Input

ax @axis or figure handle, defaults to the current figure
name name of the colormap, with or without the |ColorMap| suffix
map n × 3 rgb, as returned by |colormap|

See also

colormap mtexColorbar

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/mtexColorMap.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

Other papers describing specific MTEX methods are listed under Publications — please cite the one that best fits your application. The MTEX source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0; the text and figures of this documentation are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including by automated systems — provided The MTEX Developers and this page are credited.