how to specify pcolor color scheme

Hello,

I have 3 matrxies that I want to display using pcolor, where the matrix that identfies the colors, flag1 includes the numbers 1 2 3 - my code right now is as follows-

ma1= pcolor(I0mat,P0mat,flag1);

ma1.FaceAlpha= 0.5;

ma1.EdgeColor='none';

I want to specify 3 colors in the view of pcolor, to ideintfy each number, how do i apply this?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

% Define the ranges for the variables
I0 = 1:10; % X-axis values
P0 = 1:15; % Y-axis values

% Create meshgrid matrices for the X and Y coordinates
[I0mat, P0mat] = meshgrid(I0, P0);

% Initialize the flag1 matrix with zeros
flag1 = zeros(size(I0mat));

% Fill the flag1 matrix with values 1, 2, and 3 for demonstration
% For instance, divide the matrix into three vertical sections
numCols = size(flag1, 2);
flag1(:, 1:floor(numCols/3)) = 1; % First section with 1s
flag1(:, floor(numCols/3)+1:2*floor(numCols/3)) = 2; % Second section with 2s
flag1(:, 2*floor(numCols/3)+1:end) = 3; % Third section with 3s

% Plot using pcolor
ma1 = pcolor(I0mat, P0mat, flag1);
ma1.FaceAlpha = 0.5;
ma1.EdgeColor = 'none';

figure
% Plot using pcolor
ma1 = pcolor(I0mat, P0mat, flag1);
ma1.FaceAlpha = 0.5;
ma1.EdgeColor = 'none';


% Define a custom colormap
customColormap = [1 0 0; % Red for 1
                  0 1 0; % Green for 2
                  0 0 1];% Blue for 3

% Apply the custom colormap
colormap(customColormap);

% Adjust the color limits
caxis([1 3]);

% Optionally, add a colorbar
colorbar('Ticks', [1.33, 2, 2.66], 'TickLabels', {'1', '2', '3'});

See first example in doc

[ola watad]

Thank you!!