help with a heat map
45 views (last 30 days)
Show older comments
Hello, I have been trying to create a heat map with the following characteristics: variation of the magnitude of the increase in vertical effort in a mesh every 1 cm for point, linear, and distributed rectangular loads. I am a civil engineer and hope you can help me.heat map
1 Comment
Mathieu NOE
on 27 Oct 2025 at 8:40
hello
can you share your data / code - or a sketch / image / publication of what you want to achieve ?
Answers (3)
Cris LaPierre
on 27 Oct 2025 at 13:18
I assume you've looked here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/heatmap.html
You either need a matrix of data corresponding to every point in your grid, or vectors corresponding to the x and y locations, along with their magnitude. This should include a value for every location.
x = [1 2 3 4];
y = [1 2 3];
% len(y) = # rows in Z
% len(x) = # columns in Z
Z = rand(length(y),length(x));
heatmap(x,y,Z)
0 Comments
Sam Chak
ungefär 21 timmar ago
Hi @Camila
Perhaps this heatmap will help you to understand the data visually. In the strictest definition, a heatmap is a tabular representation in grid form where numerical values are visualized using colors instead of numbers. If your table or grid contains NaN values to represent missing data, the colors of the affected cells will be darkened.
x = [1 2 3 4];
y = [1 2 3];
[X, Y] = meshgrid(x, y);
z = X.*Y;
figure(1)
h1 = heatmap(x, y, z);
figure(2)
h2 = heatmap(x, y, z);
h2.CellLabelColor = 'none'; % Turn off numerical display
0 Comments
Mathieu NOE
ungefär 5 timmar ago
hello
there are a couple of interesting Fex submission :
and probably many others ...
0 Comments
See Also
Categories
Find more on Data Distribution Plots in Help Center and File Exchange
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!

