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how can I divide x-axis background into different colored zones?

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I want to divide x-axis background into different colored\grid zones
to have a shape like this:
I use:
plot(A,B,'k');
hold on;
area(A(1:13),B(1:13),'basevalue',0,'FaceColor','g');
area(A(13:end),B(13:end),'basevalue',0,'FaceColor','r');
but it produced this shape:
I am only want to have three separate zones.
HOW CAN I DO THIS ?

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 25 Aug 2015
Edited: Star Strider on 25 Aug 2015
I will leave it to you to define the colours, but otherwise this code should work for you without modification in your code, except for the plot(x,y) statements:
x = linspace(0, 3E+5);
y = cumsum(rand(size(x)));
figure(1)
plot(x, y)
hold on
patch([0 1E+5 1E+5 0], [max(ylim) max(ylim) 0 0], 'r')
patch([1E+5 2E+5 2E+5 1E+5], [max(ylim) max(ylim) 0 0], 'g')
patch([2E+5 3E+5 3E+5 2E+5], [max(ylim) max(ylim) 0 0], 'b')
plot(x, y, 'k', 'LineWidth',1.5)
hold off
NOTE — You have to re-plot the original line after plotting the patches, because the patches overplot the data line. The first plot call is necessary to define the axes and the figure.
  6 Comments
Amr Hashem
Amr Hashem on 7 Sep 2015
what if I want to replace the colors by crosshatch(3 different hatch lines)? how to do this?
Star Strider
Star Strider on 7 Sep 2015
See hatch.m in the File Exchange. MATLAB itself has no functions for this. Another option may be crosshatch_poly, since I used patch objects in my code. (I have no experience with either of these functions, and have not looked at their code. I can’t help you with them.)

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