BreakXAxis

Inserts < // > into a 'broken' or discontinuous x-axis.

Description

h=BreakXAxis(x,y,start,stop,width) plots (x,y) and breaks the plot's x-axis between <start> and <stop>, by inserting a broken-axis symbol < // > into a space <width> wide. This type of plot is often used in scientific papers, when the data between <start> and <stop> isn't interesting. The code can be easily modified (swap y for x) to break the y-axis.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
BreakAxis

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)

[Ale Guillén-Mandujano]

 

[Joseph]

Wow! Great work.

NOTE TO USERS:
i) it is usually desirable to have width as small as feasible

ii)it's really easy to add your own style text parameter to the function so that you can do more than the default blue dot.

REALLY GREAT !!! A manager at our company really loved it -- need I say more!

[Joseph]

 

[alex marin]

Nice, but the break mark on the x axis does not have a "professional" look as in e/g/ origin.

[Ashok Reddy]

Nice work. Any later version of Matlab has such a functionality built-in?

[Richard Rieber]

Great function. I was trying to do this for a bar chart, so it doesn't apply. Seems like it would be simple to adapt. However, I did notice that the function uses max(ytick) to calculate where to put the '//' on the upper x-axis. This may not work in cases where the maximum ytick is not on the upper y-axis. Perhaps use:

> v = axis;
> t2 = text(start+width/2,v(4),'//','fontsize',15);

[Aurélien BERTIN]

I don't understand how you can do the same on y-axis. Can you explain? What do I have to change in code? Thanks