Color from contourf and colorbar doesn't match

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Mike
Mike on 22 Jan 2011
I am using ‘contourf ’to create a filled 2-D contour plot, and using the ‘caxis‘ to control the max and min colorvalue. And then I used the ‘colorbar’ to create a colorbar. But the colorbar and the color on the figure doesn't match. If I change
cp=jet(4);%colormap
colormap(cp);
to
cp=jet(5);%colormap
colormap(cp);
The colorbar will be totally messed up.
Here is the code. Please help.
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clc;
clear
cf2=[0.8163 0.8425 0.8595 0.8581 0.7743 0.6571 0.8534 0.8522;0.7918 0.8053 0.8033 0.7986 0.7934 0.7889 0.7724 0.7874;0.7771 0.7909 0.7969 0.8502 0.8137 0.7955 0.6184 0.6209];
figure;
nn=0.6;
[c,h]=contour(cf2,[nn:0.1:1]);
contourf(cf2,[nn:0.1:1]);
clabel(c);
caxis([nn,1]);
cp=jet(4);
colormap(cp);
h1=colorbar;
set(h1,'Ylim',[nn,1]);
set(h1,'YTick',nn:0.1:1);
set(h1,'YTickLabel',nn:0.1:1);

Answers (1)

Sam G.
Sam G. on 24 Jan 2011
Well, this may not be a very satisfying solution but if you change
nn=0.6
to
nn=0.60000001
the colorbar will then match the contour plot. Changing
caxis([nn,1])
to
caxis([nn,0.9999999])
also seems to work.

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