How to set an image as background for plot and display it in existing GUI?
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In my application, on a click of a button a plot with an background image should be plotted and displayed in the same window. To do so, I create some UIAxes in my App:
app.UIAxes = uiaxes(app.GridLayout);
app.UIAxes.Layout.Row = 5;
app.UIAxes.Layout.Column = 3;
After the button is clicked I plot the diagram in the already existing (but empty) UIAxes:
plot(points(:,1), points(:,2), 'r.-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Parent', app.UIAxes);
That works so far, but I am not able to put the image in the background. I know from a previous question, that I can display the picture and plot the points over it like this:
imshow(image);
hold on
axis('on', 'image')
plot(points(:,1), points(:,2), 'r.-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'MarkerSize', 30);
This soultion is great, because my plot is in the imagesize and everything fits. But this solution opens a new window and I want to render it into the current GUI. I also tried to use Image instead of UIAxes and set the Image with:
app.Image.ImageSource = image;
But then I don't know how to plot the graph in it.
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Cameron
on 29 Dec 2022
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Cameron
on 30 Dec 2022
Try this
img = 'thumbnail.jpg'; %your file name
I = imread(img);
x = 0:0.1:7; %x vector
y = rand(length(x),1); %random y vector
hold(app.UIAxes,'on') %hold your uiaxes
%input your image. the [0 7] and [1 0] are taken from the x and y data.
%adjust as needed
image(app.UIAxes,[0 7],[1 0],I);
plot(app.UIAxes,x,y,'-o') %plot
hold(app.UIAxes,'off')
axis(app.UIAxes,'tight')
You can adjust this as required.
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Image Analyst
on 29 Dec 2022
Do you mean like this:
grayImage = imread('moon.tif');
[rows, columns, numberOfColorchannels] = size(grayImage)
imshow(grayImage);
axis xy
x = 1 : columns;
period = 64;
y = 100 * sin(2 * pi * x / period) + rows/2;
hold on;
plot(x, y, 'r-', 'LineWidth', 2)
yline(rows/2, 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', 'c')
axis('on')
Other demos are attached.
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Image Analyst
on 30 Dec 2022
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