Customizing Graphics Interactively

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In this tutorial, you will see how you can customize your graphs interactively.

Load Data
Create Basic Plot
Customize using Plot Tools
Calling Generated MATLAB File

Load Data

First, we'll load the data necessary for this exercise.

load data

Create Basic Plot

Next, plot the data to create the crude visualization.

figure();
hold on;   % hold the figure to plot multiple objects.

hFit   = plot(xfit  , yfit   );
hE     = errorbar(xdata_m, ydata_m, ydata_s);
hData  = plot(xVdata, yVdata );
hModel = plot(xmodel, ymodel );
hCI(1) = plot(xmodel, ymodelL);
hCI(2) = plot(xmodel, ymodelU);

Customize using Plot Tools

Open Plot Tools by clicking on the right-most button of the Figure toolbar.

Make the following customization interactively in Plot Tools.

Add X and Y grids
Remove line from error bars. Add "o" marker. Change MarkerEdgeColor, MarkerFaceColor, MarkerSize, Color and LineWidth
Change Color and make line thicker
Remove line and add marker (increase MarkerSize)
Change line color, line type, and line thickness
Change line color, line type, and line thickness
Add X and Y labels

After you're done with customizing, close Plot Tools (click on the button next to the one that opened Plot Tools). Go to File menu and select "Generate M-File".

Calling Generated MATLAB File

Once the MATLAB file is generated, you can call it with the appropriate input arguments.

createfigure(xfit, yfit, xdata_m, ydata_m, ydata_s, xVdata, yVdata, ...
   xmodel, ymodel, ymodelL, ymodelU)

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