Smooth 3D bezier curves with implicit control points by Will Robertson

Uses Hobby's algorithm to plot smooth curves in 3D through specified control points (bezier curves, splines, smooth curves)

hobbysplines(points,varargin)

splines_example.m

Plot2BMP by Bryan C. Smith

Exports Matlab arrays into BMP images. Many options for color, can handle complex arrays. (plotting, visualization, complex maps)

plot2bmp(Z,varargin)

mandelbrot.m

Bar Chart with Error Bars by Martina Callaghan

This is a very simple extension of MatLab's bar function to add error bars. (bar, error, errorbar)

barwitherr(errors,varargin)

sciencestagram by Chad Greene

Make your plots look somewhat like they came from the dustiest section of the engineering library. (plotting, throwback)

sciencestagram(figurehandle)

Call 2D real functions with complex numbers (cmplx.m) by Peter Mao

A wrapper function to allow use of complex numbers in functions of the form F(X,Y,...). (complex numbers, plotting, scatter)

cmplx(funhandle,varargin)

ntitle by Chad Greene

Place a title inside a plot. Reduces title/xlabel ambiguity in figures with multiple subplots. (title, tufte, plotting)

ntitle(titlestring,varargin)

The carpetplot class by Matthias

Create carpet plots and cheater plots easily (plotting, carpet, carpet plot)

Carpetplot Class Example Plots

arrow(varargin)

h=hatchedline(xc,yc,linespec,theta,ar,spc,len,varargin)

Duration (CDF) Plot by Roger Parkyn

A simple plotter for ranked data against empirical probability. (hydrology, probability, duration plot)

duration_plot(y_data, varargin)

Panel by Ben Mitch

Like subplot, but easier, and WYSIWYG export to file. Also fixes dashed/dotted lines in export. (multipane, panel, plot)

demopanel_callback(data)

demopanel_minihist(stats, show_xtick, show_ytick)

true) panel

errorbarjitter by David Stern

Plot mean ± SD alongside jittered raw data (plotting, jitter, statistics)

errorbarjitter.m

polarc by Marco Borges

A polar plot function that accepts arguments LineSpec to modify the graph. (polar, graph types, plotting)

polarc(varargin)

Rotate X-axis tick labels by Ben Tordoff

Rotate x-tick labels to any angle, preserving font settings and coping with resize, zoom, pan etc (plotting, xtick)

rotateXLabels( ax, angle, varargin )

Hatched Lines and Contours by Rob McDonald

Draw lines and contours with hatches on one side of the line. (hatch, constraint, plotting)

h=hatchedcontours(C,varargin)

h=hatchedline(xc,yc,linespec,theta,ar,spc,len,varargin)

ocontourc(x, y, z, NV, cgt)

sigstar - add signifiance stars to bar charts, box plots, etc by Rob Campbell

Add significance bars and asterisks to various plot types (statistics, plotting, pvalue)

demo_sigstar

varargout=sigstar(groups,stats,nosort)

Shade area between two curves by John Bockstege

Function shades the area between two vectors. (area, fill, curves)

jbfill.m

SC - powerful image rendering by Oliver Woodford

Useful tool for rendering and outputting information rich images (colormap, color, colorbar)

autumn(varargin)

bled(varargin)

bone(varargin)

kml2kmz.m by Ryan Bell

Converts .kml file types into self-contained .kmz filetypes. (plotting, mapping, contour)

kml2kmz(varargin)

XKCDIFY by Stuart Layton

Redraw existing plots to look like XKCD style plots (plotting, comics, graphics)

xkcdify(axHandle)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export of Figures by Juerg Schwizer

Converts 3D and 2D MATLAB plots to the scalable vector format (SVG). (plot2svg, svg filters, 3d)

demo_svg_water

plot2svg.m

simulink2svg

boxplotC by Brian Katz

Extend the functionality of boxplot to allow for color, filled, and overlay options. (overlay, boxplot color, plotting)

boxplotC(x,g,notch,sym,vert,whis,c,fillit,LineWidth)

boxutilC(x,notch,lb,lf,sym,vert,whis,whissw,c,fillit,LineWi...

boxplotCsub (boxplotC) by Brian Katz

Revised version of boxplotC to allow coloring and subgroup plotting of boxplots. (boxplot, boxplot color, colorboxplotc)

boxplotCsub(x,g,notch,sym,vert,whis,c,fillit,LineWidth,kout...

boxutilC(x,notch,lb,lf,sym,vert,whis,whissw,c,fillit,LineWi...

Polar 2 by Daniel Armyr

An update to Matlabs built-in polar.m (antenna, polar, graph types)

Demo script of the polar2

polar2(varargin)

labelEdgeSubPlots by Rob Campbell

Automatically apply x and y labels to subplots only along the edges. (plotting, label, subplot)

varargout=labelEdgeSubPlots(xl,yl,onlyBottom)

Violin Plots for plotting multiple distributions (distributionPlot.m) by Jonas

Function for plotting multiple histograms side-by-side in 2D - better than boxplot. (histogram, distributions, plotting)

colorCode2rgb(c)

countEntries(m,isRow, keepNaN)

distributionPlot(varargin)

Quick 3D Data Viewer by Kevin Claytor

Small GUI for viewing 3D data with alpha mapping (gui, data exploration, data visualization)

makeAlphaMatrix(DataMatrix,alphavec)

plotMatrixAlpha(axH,Matrix,alphavec,xscale,yscale,zscale)

view3Ddata(varargin)

plot spread points (beeswarm plot) by Jonas

plotSpread plots distributions of data points, adding jitter to the points to avoid overlap. (distributions, histograms, plotting)

distinguishable_colors(n_colors,bg,func)

isEven(in)

myErrorbar(varargin)

dirplot by Steve Rickman

Makes polar directivity plots. (directivity, antenna, polar)

dirplot(theta,rho,line_style,params)

plt by Paul Mennen

A framework for GUI designs with 2D plots. plot/plotyy alternativ optimized for data exploration. (data exploration, plot, gui objects)

bounce(n)

curves(In)

demoplt(in1)

Stacked Plot by Mirko Hrovat

Stacked plots display spectra with time or another parameter. Five methods are provided. (image processing, stacked plot, plot)

stackedplot(z,style,spacing,labels,varargin)

Function to draw a tilted rectangle by Sudarshan

Specify width, height and angle of orientation of the rectangle, that is drawn on an image (rectangle, rectangle at angle, image processing)

drawRectangleonImageAtAngle(img,center,width, height,angle)

Spherical Triangle Plot Script by Jacco

Draws a spherical triangle on a unit sphere, given its coordinates. (aerospace, space, mission geometry)

drawSphericalTriangle(P1,P2,P3,varargin)

Explore Experimental Data by Alexander Ludwig Klein

The tool makes some of MATLAB's plotting and analysing functions available by a GUI (gui, plotting, signal processing)

dataExpDemo1()

dataExpDemo2()

dataFilterStandard(x, y, Fc)

Spectrogram, STFT, with varied kinds of Plots by Shreyes

Plots STFT using line, Stem, Surface, Image. STFT calculation done using in built function (plotting stft, plotting spectrogram, signal processing)

spectrogram_multiplot(plot_type, data, varargin)

spectrogram_multiplot_demo.m

notBoxPlot - alternative to box plots. by Rob Campbell

This function visualizes raw (grouped) data along with the mean, 95% confidence interval, and 1 SD. (box plot, data exploration, error bars)

sem=SEM_calc(vect, CI)

tint=tInterval_Calc(vect, CI)

varargout=notBoxPlot(y,x,jitter,style)

Color coded 3D scatterplot by Ken Garrard

Produces a 3D scatterplot of XYZ data with varying colors (scatterplot, 3d, specialized)

plot3k(L,varargin)

plotting contents of a csv spreadsheet by Stephan Koehler

convenience function for plotting columns of a spreadsheet (data import, plotting)

csvplot( varargin )

UIMAGE - UIMAGESC by Frederic Moisy

Display image with non-linearly spaced axis. (specialized, plotting, uimagesc image uneven...)

uimage(varargin)

uimagesc(varargin)

Link All Axes in Figure by Dan K

This is just a simple utility function to find all subplots in a figure and link their axes. (plotting, linkaxes)

linkaxesInFigure(varargin)

Annotated cropping of data plots by Kevin Bartlett

Makes a rectangular crop box in axes 1 with lines linking it to the corners of axes 2. (graphics, plotting, lines)

cropbox(ax1,ax2,xlims,ylims,varargin)

data2figpos(x,y,axHndl)

inter_axes_line(ax1,ax1x,ax1y,ax2,ax2x,ax2y,varargin)

plotSeries - Color-code multiple plots by James Hall

plotSeries allows multiple plots to be easily color-coded (plot, plotting, color)

plotSeries(varargin)

3D Polar Plot by Ken Garrard

Plots 3d polar data with polar axis and polar grid (polar, plot, 3d)

polarplot3d(Zp,varargin)

polarplot3d_demo.m

Draw a circle. by Zhihua He

Easy circle drawing. (circle, drawing, graphics)

H=circle(center,radius,NOP,style)

inset2DAbsolute by James Hall

inse2DAbsolute creates an axes inset, defined using the larger axes, and corresponding annotations (plot, plots, plotting)

inset2DAbsolute(axesHandle, insetLoc, style, rectLoc, varar...

applyhatch_plusC by Brian Katz

Modification of APPLYHATCH_PLUS, allowing for color and variable thickness for hatch patterns. (hatch, color, patch)

applyhatch_plusC(h,patterns,patterncolors,colorlist,dpi,hat...

makehatch_plus(hatch,n)

insertNaN by Chris Miller

Used to insert NaN values into a vector or matrix given a threshold condition. (nan, mapping, plotting)

finaldata=insertNaN(data,diffthreshold)

xyimagesc.m by Anthony Bathgate

Same as imagesc but works when X and Y are not evenly spaced. (image, imagesc, imagescnan)

xyimagesc( X, Y, C, varargin )

Hatch fill patterns plus Color & Invert by Brandon Levey

Updated code hatch with color and inverted hatches (bar, color, hatch)

applyhatch_pluscolor(h,patterns,CvBW,Hinvert,colorlist, ...

makehatch_plus(hatch,n,m)

Plotstack by Christos Saragiotis

A plot utility, to plot graphs one over the other (or one next to the other vertically) (measurement, demo, visualization)

plotstack(X,varargin)

Minimize/maximize figure window by Nikolay S.

Similar to figure function. Resizes figure window to full screen/default dims. (figure, maximize figure, plotting)

hOutFigure=figureFullScreen(varargin)

Myplotyy by Friedhelm Steinhilber

Myplotyy plots different data sets with a common x-axis but using individual y-axes in one figure. (add axis, confidence intervals, plotyy)

myplotyy(M,varargin)

myplotyy_example.m