How to fill circles with differentiated shapes (an x, dashed lines), etc.

Hi all! I am plotting something with a bunch of colored circles and would like to fill certain circles with say an x, or dashed lines, or shading to differentiate certain types from others. I haven't been able to find a way to do this. I know about MarkerFaceColor, but that will really only fill it and I'm looking for something more subtle. Thanks!

Below is a rough example of what I have.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

You can overplot them with ‘+’, ‘.’, ‘x’ or overplot or use other symbols such as stars ‘p’.

[Lindsay]

What is overplotting? How do I do that? Just make an identical plot line with the shape I want? Thanks!

[Lindsay]

For instance, I have this in my attempt to overplot but it doesn't seem to work:

plot(qthres(STi),peakamp(STi), 'ko', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 1.5);
      plot(qthres(STi),peakamp(STi), 'kx', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 1.5);

        hold on;

        plot(qthres(SMi),peakamp(SMi), 'ko', 'MarkerSize', 10,'LineWidth', 1.5);
        plot(qthres(SMi),peakamp(SMi), 'k-', 'MarkerSize', 10,'LineWidth', 1.5);

        plot(qthres(SVi),peakamp(SVi), 'ko', 'MarkerSize', 10,'LineWidth', 1.5);
        plot(qthres(SVi),peakamp(SVi), 'k+', 'MarkerSize', 10,'LineWidth', 1.5);

[Star Strider]

I can’t run your code, since I don’t have your data.

I was thinking of something like this:

x = randi([1 9], 1, 10);
y = randi([1 9], 1, 10);

figure(1)
plot(x, y, 'ok')
hold on
plot(x(3:2:end), y(3:2:end), '+r')      % Overplot With ‘+’
plot(x(2:2:8),   y(2:2:8),   '.c')      % Overplot With ‘.’
hold off
axis([0  10    0  10])

[Lindsay]

Thanks! I ended up doing something like this and it seemed to work. I just had to play around with the sizes.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!