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Graphics

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See Introducing Julia/Plotting for an overview of the plotting ecosystem in Julia.

2-D and 3-D Plots

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Line Plots

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plot 2-D line plot
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plot3 3-D line plot
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loglog Log-log scale plot
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semilogx Semilogarithmic plot
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semilogy Semilogarithmic plot
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errorbar Line plot with error bars
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fplot Plot expression or function
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fplot3 3-D parametric curve plotter
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fimplicit Plot implicit function
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LineSpec Line specification
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ColorSpec Color specification
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Pie Charts, Bar Plots, and Histograms

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bar Bar graph
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bar3 Plot 3-D bar graph
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barh Plot bar graph horizontally
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bar3h Plot horizontal 3-D bar graph
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histogram Histogram plot
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histogram2 Bivariate histogram plot
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morebins Increase number of histogram bins
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fewerbins Decrease number of histogram bins
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histcounts Histogram bin counts
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histcounts2 Bivariate histogram bin counts
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binscatter Binned scatter plot
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rose Angle histogram plot
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pareto Pareto chart
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area Filled area 2-D plot
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pie Pie chart
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pie3 3-D pie chart
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Discrete Data Plots

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stem Plot discrete sequence data
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stairs Stairstep graph
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stem3 Plot 3-D discrete sequence data
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scatter Scatter plot
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scatter3 3-D scatter plot
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spy Visualize sparsity pattern
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plotmatrix Scatter plot matrix
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heatmap Create heatmap chart
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sortx Sort elements in heatmap row
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sorty Sort elements in heatmap column
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wordcloud Create word cloud chart from text data
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geobubble Visualize data values at specific geographic locations
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geolimits Set or query geographic limits
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Polar Plots

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polarplot Plot line in polar coordinates
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polarscatter Scatter chart in polar coordinates
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polarhistogram Histogram chart in polar coordinates
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compass Plot arrows emanating from origin
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ezpolar Easy-to-use polar coordinate plotter
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rlim Set or query r-axis limits for polar axes
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thetalim Set or query theta-axis limits for polar axes
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rticks Set or query r-axis tick values
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thetaticks Set or query theta-axis tick values
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rticklabels Set or query r-axis tick labels
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thetaticklabels Set or query theta-axis tick labels
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rtickformat Specify r-axis tick label format
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thetatickformat Specify theta-axis tick label format
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rtickangle Rotate r-axis tick labels
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polaraxes Create polar axes
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Contour Plots

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contour Contour plot of matrix
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contourf Filled 2-D contour plot
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contourc Low-level contour plot computation
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contour3 3-D contour plot
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contourslice Draw contours in volume slice planes
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clabel Label contour plot elevation
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fcontour Plot contours
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Vector Fields

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feather Plot velocity vectors
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quiver Quiver or velocity plot
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compass Plot arrows emanating from origin
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quiver3 3-D quiver or velocity plot
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streamslice Plot streamlines in slice planes
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streamline Plot streamlines from 2-D or 3-D vector data
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Surfaces, Volumes, and Polygons

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Surface and Mesh Plots

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surf Surface plot
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surfc Contour plot under a 3-D shaded surface plot
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surface Create surface object
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surfl Surface plot with colormap-based lighting
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surfnorm Compute and display 3-D surface normals
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mesh Mesh plot
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meshc Plot a contour graph under mesh graph
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meshz Plot a curtain around mesh plot
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hidden Remove hidden lines from mesh plot
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fsurf Plot 3-D surface
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fmesh Plot 3-D mesh
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fimplicit3 Plot 3-D implicit function
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waterfall Waterfall plot
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ribbon Ribbon plot
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contour3 3-D contour plot
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peaks Example function of two variables
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cylinder Generate cylinder
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ellipsoid Generate ellipsoid
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sphere Generate sphere
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pcolor Pseudocolor (checkerboard) plot
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surf2patch Convert surface data to patch data
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Volume Visualization

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contourslice Draw contours in volume slice planes
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flow Simple function of three variables
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isocaps Compute isosurface end-cap geometry
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isocolors Calculate isosurface and patch colors
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isonormals Compute normals of isosurface vertices
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isosurface Extract isosurface data from volume data
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reducepatch Reduce number of patch faces
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reducevolume Reduce number of elements in volume data set
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shrinkfaces Reduce size of patch faces
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slice Volume slice planes
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smooth3 Smooth 3-D data
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subvolume Extract subset of volume data set
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volumebounds Coordinate and color limits for volume data
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coneplot Plot velocity vectors as cones in 3-D vector field
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curl Compute curl and angular velocity of vector field
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divergence Compute divergence of vector field
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interpstreamspeed Interpolate stream-line vertices from flow speed
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stream2 Compute 2-D streamline data
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stream3 Compute 3-D streamline data
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streamline Plot streamlines from 2-D or 3-D vector data
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streamparticles Plot stream particles
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streamribbon 3-D stream ribbon plot from vector volume data
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streamslice Plot streamlines in slice planes
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streamtube Create 3-D stream tube plot
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Polygons

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fill Filled 2-D polygons
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fill3 Filled 3-D polygons
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patch Create one or more filled polygons
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surf2patch Convert surface data to patch data
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Animation

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movie Play recorded movie frames
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getframe Capture axes or figure as movie frame
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frame2im Return image data associated with movie frame
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im2frame Convert image to movie frame
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animatedline Create animated line
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addpoints Add points to animated line
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getpoints Return points that define animated line
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clearpoints Clear points from animated line
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comet 2-D comet plot
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comet3 3-D comet plot
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drawnow Update figures and process callbacks
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refreshdata Refresh data in graph when data source is specified
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Formatting and Annotation

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Titles and Labels

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title Add title
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xlabel Label x-axis
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ylabel Label y-axis
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zlabel Label z-axis
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clabel Label contour plot elevation
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legend Add legend to axes
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colorbar Colorbar showing color scale
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text Add text descriptions to data points
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texlabel Format text with TeX characters
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gtext Add text to figure using mouse
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line Create primitive line
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rectangle Create rectangle with sharp or curved corners
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annotation Create annotations
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Axes Appearance

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xlim Set or query x-axis limits
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ylim Set or query y-axis limits
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zlim Set or query z-axis limits
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axis Set axis limits and aspect ratios
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box Display axes outline
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daspect Control data unit length along each axis
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pbaspect Control relative lengths of each axis
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grid Display or hide axes grid lines
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xticks Set or query x-axis tick values
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yticks Set or query y-axis tick values
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zticks Set or query z-axis tick values
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xticklabels Set or query x-axis tick labels
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yticklabels Set or query y-axis tick labels
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zticklabels Set or query z-axis tick labels
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xtickformat Specify x-axis tick label format
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ytickformat Specify y-axis tick label format
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ztickformat Specify z-axis tick label format
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xtickangle Rotate x-axis tick labels
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ytickangle Rotate y-axis tick labels
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ztickangle Rotate z-axis tick labels
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datetick Date formatted tick labels
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ruler2num Convert data from specific ruler to numeric data
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num2ruler Convert numeric data for use with specific ruler
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hold Retain current plot when adding new plots
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subplot Create axes in tiled positions
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yyaxis Create chart with two y-axes
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cla Clear axes
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axes Create Cartesian axes
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figure Create figure window
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Colormaps

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colormap View and set current colormap
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colorbar Colorbar showing color scale
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rgbplot Plot colormap
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Colormap Editor Open colormap editor
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brighten Brighten or darken colormap
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contrast Create grayscale colormap to enhance image contrast
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caxis Set colormap limits
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spinmap Rotate colormap colors
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hsv2rgb Convert HSV colors to RGB
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rgb2hsv Convert RGB colors to HSV
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parula Parula colormap array
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jet Jet colormap array
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hsv HSV colormap array
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hot Hot colormap array
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cool Cool colormap array
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spring Spring colormap array
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summer Summer colormap array
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autumn Autumn colormap array
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winter Winter colormap array
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gray Gray colormap array
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bone Bone colormap array
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copper Copper colormap array
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pink Pink colormap array
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lines Lines colormap array
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colorcube Colorcube colormap array
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prism Prism colormap array
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flag Flag colormap array
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3-D Scene Control

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Camera Views

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view Viewpoint specification
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makehgtform Create 4-by-4 transform matrix
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viewmtx View transformation matrices
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cameratoolbar Control camera toolbar programmatically
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campan Rotate camera target around camera position
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camzoom Zoom in and out on scene
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camdolly Move camera position and target
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camlookat Position camera to view object or group of objects
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camorbit Rotate camera position around camera target
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campos Set or query camera position
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camproj Set or query projection type
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camroll Rotate camera about view axis
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camtarget Set or query location of camera target
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camup Set or query camera up vector
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camva Set or query camera view angle
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Lighting, Transparency, and Shading

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camlight Create or move light object in camera coordinates
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light Create light
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lightangle Create or position light object in spherical coordinates
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lighting Specify lighting algorithm
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shading Set color shading properties
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diffuse Calculate diffuse reflectance
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material Control reflectance properties of surfaces and patches
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specular Calculate specular reflectance
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alim Set or query axes alpha limits
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alpha Add transparency to objects in axes
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alphamap Specify figure alphamap (transparency)
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Images

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imshow Display image
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image Display image from array
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imagesc Display image with scaled colors
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imread Read image from graphics file
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imresize Resize image
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imwrite Write image to graphics file
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imfinfo Information about graphics file
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imformats Manage image file format registry
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frame2im Return image data associated with movie frame
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im2frame Convert image to movie frame
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im2java Convert image to Java image
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im2double Convert image to double precision
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ind2rgb Convert indexed image to RGB image
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rgb2gray Convert RGB image or colormap to grayscale
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rgb2ind Convert RGB image to indexed image
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imapprox Approximate indexed image by reducing number of colors
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dither Convert image, increasing apparent color resolution by dithering
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cmpermute Rearrange colors in colormap
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