Creating Publication‐Quality Figures from Matlab
Constantino Carlos Reyes‐Aldasoro · 2015
One crucial part of any research is the generation of publication-quality figures that can be submitted to journals. This chapter explores the characteristics of figures and how to manipulate them. It illustrates the process of high quality image generation with three examples. In Mat lab each “element” such as a figure, an image or an axis is defined by its 'handle'. The 'handle' contains a large amount of information that defines the element or object itself. It is possible to modify several characteristics of a figure in one single instruction line by concatenating the characteristic and the new value. In the language of Matlab, the positions are called “ticks”, and the characters for each tick are called “labels”. Matlab normally assigns the number of ticks along each axis automatically according to the dimension of the data and the size of the figure.