lutbar: a pedestrian colormap toolbar/contextmenu creator

LUTBAR creates a colormap toolbar and context menu

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if you are tired of trying colormap(xxx) at the command prompt to find the appropriate colormap for your figure - try LUTBAR
LUTBAR creates a colormap toolbar with colormap icons and context menu from ML?s own colormaps and/or additional colormaps for fast colormap switching in a figure
LUTBAR comes with various options to define those colormaps that you want to show up on the bar/menu

an additional utility, LUT2MAT, converts NIH-IMAGE type color lookup tables to typical ML colormap files of the form xxx_lut.m, which are callable with any number of desired colors, ie, xxx_lut(nrcols)

see the accompanying published ML file for instructions and an example, and type
> help lutbar
> help lut2mat
for more information

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us (2026). lutbar: a pedestrian colormap toolbar/contextmenu creator (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9137-lutbar-a-pedestrian-colormap-toolbar-contextmenu-creator), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.0.0.0

removed erroneous behavior in ML versions 7.5 and above; version tag is 19-Jan-2008 04:28:47