help with a heat map

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Camila
Camila on 27 Oct 2025 at 6:08
Answered: Mathieu NOE on 28 Oct 2025 at 8:32
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
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Mathieu NOE
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 ?

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Cris LaPierre
Cris LaPierre on 27 Oct 2025 at 13:18
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)

Sam Chak
Sam Chak ungefär 21 timmar ago
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

Mathieu NOE
Mathieu NOE ungefär 5 timmar ago
hello
there are a couple of interesting Fex submission :
and probably many others ...

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