Programming and Graphics

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text Text annotation

title Graph title

xlabel x-axis label

ylabel y-axis label

zlabel z-axis label for three-dimensional plots

Graphics control

capture Screen capture of current figure in UNIX

clf Clear current figure

close Abandon figure

figure Create a figure in a new graph window

gcf Get handle to current figure

graymon Set default figure properties for gray-scale monitors

newplot Determine correct axes and figure for new graph

refresh Redraw current figure window

whitebg Toggle figure background color

Axis control

axes Create axes at arbitrary position

axis Control axis scaling and appearance

caxis Control pseudo-color axis scaling

cla Clear current axes

gca Get handle to current axes

hold Hold current graph

ishold True if hold is on

subplot Create axes in tiled positions

Graphics objects

figure Create a figure window

image Create an image

line Generate a line

patch Generate a surface patch

surface Generate a surface

text Create text

uicontrol Create user interface control

uimenu Create user interface menu

Table F.8.1Elementary and specializedMatlabgraphics functions and proce-
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