prettyPlot

Summary

• Made the default line styles bigger, and the default fonts nicer.
• Options are passed as a structure, instead of through plot's large number of different functions.
• You can pass in cell arrays to have lines of different lengths.
• You can pass an n*3 matrix of colors, and cell arrays of line-styles and/or markers. It will cycle through the given choices.
• All markers are placed on top of (all) lines, you do not have to put a marker on every data point, and you can use different spacing between markers for different lines.
• You can change only the upper or lower x-limit (y-limit), rather than having to specify both.
• There is a heuristic to place labels directly on the line instead of in a legend.
• There is some support for making nicer-looking error lines/areas.

Download and Examples

Once this is done, type the following in Matlab:

>> cd prettyPlot           % Change to the unzipped directory
>> prettyPlot              % Shows the defaults options
>> example_prettyPlot      % Shows basic functionality, including placing markers at uneven points. 
>> example_prettyPlot2     % Shows using lines of different lenghts, repeating sequences of lineStyles/markers/colors, and having unspecified upper/lower limts. 
>> example_prettyPlot3     % Shows how to label lines. 
>> example_prettyPlot4     % Shows how to plot upper/lower error lines/surfaces. 

example_prettyPlot

example_prettyPlot2

example_prettyPlot3

example_prettyPlot4