Custom colormap being cut off in colorbar

I am trying to plot something with a manually added colormap, using something like the code below (this is just a minimal example showing my problem): I create some kind of matrix that has values between two known values, plot it with pcolor, and insert a colorbar.

Tmin=10; Tmax=320;
colmap = load('colorbartest_colormap.txt');
imagematrix = transpose(sqrt(linspace(Tmin,Tmax,10)))*sqrt(linspace(Tmin,Tmax,10));
pcolor(imagematrix);
colorbar;

This plots nicely with the standard colormap (jet), as shown in the screenshot:

however, if I try to use my own colormap with

colormap(colmap)

I end up with the following:

and actually, even though I just use

colormap('jet')

I still get the problem, as:

Can anyone help me with what happens here? :(

I am using MATLAB vs. R2011a on Windows 7 64bit, if that has any importance.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can't have more than 256 color indexes - that's why it stops there.

Also, don't use pcolor() because it doesn't show you all the rows and columns of your image. That's why you see only a 9 by 9 array/grid instead of a 10 by 10 one.

[Pia]

Ah, then it makes sense - thank you so much for that! :)

[Image Analyst]

Use image() or imshow() instead of pcolor(). You can have values outside the 0-255 range though. Run my attached demos.