force colour of pixels with certain values to black when using a colormap with imagesc

Hi there,

I'm using imagesc to produce the following image (which is a plot of angular error for a given azimuth and elevation value):

Using caxis([0,10]); to constrain the range of valid values between 0 and 10 degrees is great. BUT, what I want to be able to do is assign another custom colour (e.g., white or black) to all values > 10. Can someone help me do this when plotting with imagesc?

I've tried defining a custom colourmap by setting the uppomost value to white for example, BUT, it sets all values that are 10 also to white (see below image). I need to retain those values...

So I'm looking for a way of forcing the colormap and colorbar to remain as above but only for values > 10 (the last image actually sets results = 10 also to white but I only want this for values greater than the maximum value of my colorbar), Like a thresholding operation.

Any assistance would be greatly received!

Many thanks.

Mark

Answer 1

[DGM]

If you're using imagesc(), image(), or imshow(), you can use the 'alphadata' property:

% we have some data that spans from 0 beyond 10
Z = peaks(100);
Z = normalize(Z,'range')*15;

% create a mask to describe regions within normal data range
alpha = Z<=10;

imagesc(Z,'alphadata',alpha)
colorbar

You can then choose the background color by setting the 'color' property of the parent axes:

set(gca,'color',[1 0.3 0.7]) % or any color you want

[Mark Thompson]

Awesome response @DGM I really appreciate it! Have a great day.

Cheers,

Mark