Get next plot color
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When using the function plot with hold set to 'all', each call to plot uses the successive entry in the ColorOrder property of the current axes. Is there a way to find out what is the color the next call to plot will use, if it is not known how many calls to plot have already been executed?
In other words, here is an example to clarify my question: plot(x,bob) hold all plot(x,garry) ... (unknown number of calls to plot)
What will be the color of the next plot?
Thanks, David
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Walter Roberson
2011년 7월 11일
There are many plotting functions that add multiple children -- though the top level child might be an hggroup .
plot() adds multiple line() objects; bar() adds multiple patch() objects; boxplot() adds a combination of objects; polar() adds a combination of objects; contour() adds an hggroup that has patch() objects and text() objects as its children...
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Daniel Shub
2011년 7월 11일
I think the number of children should equal the number of calls to plot. You need to use mod to loop through the colors (i.e if the number of plots is greater than the number of colors).
colorOrder = get(gca, 'ColorOrder');
plot(1:10, 'Color', colorOrder(mod(length(get(gca, 'Children')), size(colorOrder, 1))+1, :))
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Daniel Shub
2011년 7월 11일
To deal with Walter's observation about plotyy, I guess you would need to check the figure for all children which are axes. You then might want to count the children of any axes which have identical positions to the axis you are interested in.
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Jan
2011년 7월 11일
What about trying it:
lineH = plot(1,1);
color = get(lineH, 'Color');
delete(lineH);
[EDITED]: Walter's comment pointed me to the fact, that the intermediate creation of a PLOT line changes the next color. This is not working
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Alexandra Gallyas Sanhueza
2021년 4월 29일
I was actually searching how to advance to the next color and this works :)
Teja Muppirala
2011년 7월 13일
This seems to work ok:
figure
hold all;
plot(rand(5,3));
h = plot(nan,nan);
nextcolor = get(h,'color')
h = plot(nan(2,size(get(gca,'colororder'),1)-1)); %Loop back
delete(h)
plot(rand(1,10)) %<-- This line's color is "nextcolor"
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John Barber
2011년 7월 14일
The next color to be used by a call to plot is stored as an index into the list of colors in the axes' ColorOrder property. You can access this index using:
NextColor = getappdata(hAx,'PlotColorIndex')
where hAx is the handle of the axes of interest. This is an undocumented feature, so it may not work in all MATLAB versions (I'm using R2010a / 7.10)
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Jim Hokanson
2017년 1월 9일
편집: Jim Hokanson
2017년 1월 9일
In newer versions of Matlab the state is stored in the axes as 'ColorOrderIndex'. In 2016b, this wraps, and you can get values from 1 to (n_colors+1) which after (n_colors+1) goes back to 2 (you only see 1 at the start of a plot, at least in this version).
So the next color is:
colors = get(gca,'ColorOrder');
index = get(gca,'ColorOrderIndex');
n_colors = size(colors,1);
if index > n_colors
index = 1;
end
next_color = colors(index,:);
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J. Alex Lee
2020년 4월 10일
Update in 2020 (not sure about previous versions), but it is now an exposed property in the axes:
ax = gca;
ax.ColorOrder
ax.ColorOrderIndex
Works for uiaxes() as well
Mauro
2014년 8월 18일
to get the colour from the 1th to the 20th lineplot, type
cm = lines(20);
after the 7th line it starts again with blue [0 0 1]
so
figure(1)
clf
plot(randn(50,10)*0.1+repmat((1:10),50,1))
ist the same as
figure(1)
clf
cm = lines(10)
hold on
for k = 1:10
plot(randn(50,1)*0.1+k,'color',cm(k,:))
end
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