hatch.m

Create cross-hatched filled regions.

Description

This is an old file by Kirill K. Pankratov thaat used to be on the file exchange. I've updated it to run on Matlab 5+.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.3.1 (R11.1)

[Steve Chiswell]

Usefull m file. I often need hatched shading for b&w figures in journals. Hopefull this will do the job.
Took me a while to figure out how to run it

[Troy Goodson]

I've done some limited testing of this
m-file with Matlab 6.5.0.196271 (R13.0.1)
and it's been working very well!
Thanks so much Iram!
Troy.

[Gene Smith]

I have used this to create complex bar graphs. It took a while to figure out how to use it. My usage was

hdl = patch(x,y,'w','EdgeColor'.'k'); % using MATLAB "patch" to establish the border

hatch(hdl,[30,8,2],'b')

I did notice at cetain angles some of my small bars had the hash lines at strange angles.

[Dimitri Pavlidis]

 

[Joel Lindop]

Very useful, thanks a lot!
One tiny change worth making: the function definition on the first line is missing its output variables. Change to:
function lh = hatch(obj,angle,color,style,step,width)
if you want access to the handle (lh).

[Bob Farrell]

Now need to include 'v6' as first arg to bar function in order for demo to work. Even though this was exactly what I was looking for (and amazed that this isn't built in), I ended up not using it partly because I didn't understand why exactly horizontal or exactly vertical lines jump one pixel -- wasn't asthetic to my eye for manuscript quality.

[Martin Mul]

Nice program, but i have one question:
If I hatch it hatches to one side of my graph. How do i manage to hatch also the other side of this graph?

[Scott Beaver]

This didn't work for me-- the hatch lines would not rotate in my figures, and no hatch lines were drawn using "hatch demo." Perhaps an issue with my Linux_64 machine?

[Neil Dalchau]

Generally works, but could not get the angle to work. I'm using Matlab on Windows 7, 32-bit.