Setting colors for plot function
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I would like to be able to choose the colors for a multiline plot but I can not get it. This is my code
colors = {'b','r','g'};
T = [0 1 2]';
column = [2 3];
count = magic(3);
SelecY = count(:,column),
plot(T,SelecY,'Color',colors{column});
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Image Analyst
on 3 Nov 2011
See my demo for setting ColorOrder here: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/19815-explicitly-specifying-line-colors-when-plotting-a-matrix
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Walter Roberson
on 3 Nov 2011
You cannot specify different colors in multi-column (multi-line) plot() calls.
You can record the handles and set the colors individually:
h = plot(T,SelecY);
for K = 1 : length(h)
set(h,'Color', colors{column(K)});
end
Another approach is use the axes ColorOrder property. See here. (Note: you need RGB color specifications for that approach.)
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Walter Roberson
on 5 Nov 2011
That sounds unlikely to be the case, but I do not have access to MATLAB this evening to test it out.
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