line matlab color,绘制彩色线图

Beautiful and distinguishable line colors + colormap

The default Matlab default line spec and colormaps are astoundingly crude. This function creates distinguishable colors by spacing them out ~equally in *perceptive* space, not in RGB space. It is based off the research of professor Cynthia Brewer (colorbrewer!) but amazingly easy to use.

This function creates an Nx3 array of N [R B G] colors

These can be used to plot lots of lines with distinguishable and nice looking colors.

lineStyles = linspecer(N); makes N colors for you to use: lineStyles(ii,:)

colormap(linspecer); set your colormap to have easily distinguishable colors and a pleasing aesthetic

lineStyles = linspecer(N,'qualitative'); forces the colors to all be distinguishable (up to 12)

lineStyles = linspecer(N,'sequential'); forces the colors to vary along a spectrum

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Examples demonstrating the colors.

% LINE COLORS

N=6;

X = linspace(0,pi*3,1000);

Y = bsxfun(@(x,n)sin(x+2*n*pi/N), X.', 1:N);

C = linspecer(N);

axes('NextPlot','replacechildren', 'ColorOrder',C);

plot(X,Y,'linewidth',5)

ylim([-1.1 1.1]);

% SIMPLER LINE COLOR EXAMPLE

N = 6; X = linspace(0,pi*3,1000);

C = linspecer(N)

hold off;

for ii=1:N

Y = sin(X+2*ii*pi/N);

plot(X,Y,'color',C(ii,:),'linewidth',3);

hold on;

end

% COLORMAP EXAMPLE

A = rand(15);

figure; imagesc(A); % default colormap

figure; imagesc(A); colormap(linspecer); % linspecer colormap

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Credits and where the function came from:

The colors are largely taken from:

http://colorbrewer2.org and Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower and The Pennsylvania State University

She studied this from a phsychometric perspective and crafted the colors

beautifully.

I made choices from the many there to decide the nicest once for plotting lines in Matlab. I also made a small change to one of the colors I thought was a bit too bright. In addition some interpolation is going on for the sequential line styles. An Apache-Style Software License is included in the file.