http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/171924 Feed for thread: Contour graph help! en-us &copy;1994-2012 by MathWorks, Inc. webmaster@mathworks.com MATLAB Central Newsreader http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.mathworks.com/images/membrane_icon.gif Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:54:02 -0400 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/171924#440777 Zijia Li I'm looking to make a contour graph with:<br> X-axis being dates (increasing to the right)<br> Y-axis being different lake water depth(increasing downward)<br> and Color from red to blue on the graph indicating various<br> temperatures with legend indicating which color is which<br> temperature.<br> This way you can find the temperature of the exact data and<br> water depth by comparing the color at that point with the<br> legend.<br> How do I do that in matlab? I tried contourf but couldn't<br> get it to work right. I'm using an old version of Matlab<br> right now (5.3), but if the method is for the newer<br> versions, it is welcome too, since I might be able to get my<br> hand on a newer copy.<br> Thanks