Hatched Fill Patterns

Replace solid colors with patterns.

Description

Will create a bitmap copy of a figure with distinct colors replaced with hatch patterns. This is useful for b+w bitmap output. Vector output is not supported.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Hatch fill patterns plus plus, Hatched Fill Patterns Plus, Hatch fill patterns plus Color & Invert
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.3.1 (R11.1)

[Denis Gilbert]

The two m-files (APPLYHATCH and MAKEHATCH) address a long-standing shortcoming in the basic 2-D plotting capabilities of Matlab. Works well with PIE, BAR and CONTOURF.

Good job Ben !

[Brian Katz]

This should be included as a default feature in MatLab. A much needed function for producing any publications graphics.

[Danny Zhai]

That is what I have been looking for! Nice job!

[Mike Zierolf]

Thanks a lot! This worked exactly as advertised.

[Christopher Brown]

Excellent. Can be easily modified to use custom fill patterns too.

[Mark Lilly]

Needed to make black and white images for a paper and this utility saved the day. Highly reccommend!!! Thanks so much.

[Guillermo Franco]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[Trond Kristiansen]

Very useful! Graze!

[C.Safak SAHIN]

Thanks, I started writing a code for it. After that, I found this program. I will be so helpful.

[Andreas E.]

Works great!

[Jihun Jung]

thanks alot! very useful one.

[vignesh ravi]

 

[Tobias Conradsson]

This saved me a lot of work and time, thanks

[Elena D]

 

[Lucas]

textures don't line up - but colour mapping is a good idea - Aha, i've found the problem, when the image is put into the figure, it is made _slightly_ bigger, giving the appearence (and output to file) of a bitmap with an extra line in its textures in the middle: lines 100 and 101 should read
set(newfig,'position',[fpos(1:2) figsize(3) figsize(4)]);
set(imaxes,'position',[0 0 figsize(3) figsize(4)],'visible','off');
i.e. remove the plus one

[Oleg Komarov]

I agree with Brian: this should be a built in feature in matlab. I always have to export data and do my graphs in excel.
Also, i think the "pointed" texture should be improved to match the logic it has in excel, that is it shouldn't simply make bigger points.

[K R]

Thanks so much! This is so useful for black and white printing. One tip to users is to change the gcf color (color background) to white before applying the hatch. it seems once the hatch is applied the figure isn't able to be modified further.

[Rashed]

Thanks a lot.

[David]

Excellent, this is exactly what am I looking for.

[Qing Xie]

 

[Qing Xie]

 

[Hua]

This is really a good thing!

[Jonathan C. Lansey]

Great worked right out of the "box" thanks!

[J G]

Can this work with 'area' plots?