Log axis on imagesc

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Cl
Cl on 10 Mar 2014
Commented: Sean de Wolski on 10 Mar 2014
I've plotted an image using imagesc:
figure;
imagesc([pmin pmax], [vmax vmin],flipud(result.^2))
xlabel('Period (s)','FontSize',20)
ylabel('Velocity (m.s^-^1)','FontSize',20)
set(gca,'ydir','normal')
and would like to make the x-axis logarithmic. If I just do set(gca, 'XScale','log') it changes the scale but not the image. How can I change the image and the scale? I've tried plotting with surf as well, but that's not producing what I want. My xscale values are 2:0.1980:101, so I'm not sure what the best way of plotting this is. Any suggestions are much appriciated!

Answers (1)

Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 10 Mar 2014
I think what you want is to use surf with x and y set to your values.
surf(1:100,1:100,magic(100));
set(gca,'XScale','log');
view(2)
If this isn't correct, could you attach your data in a zip file?
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Cl
Cl on 10 Mar 2014
Thanks for your response. When using set(gca, 'XScale','log') how does this decide how the values are split up? When I use
surf(result.^2,'LineStyle','none')
view(0,90)
set(gca, 'XTick',pmin:(pmax-pmin)/10:pmax ,'XTickLabel', round(pmin:(pmax-pmin)/10:pmax), 'FontSize',16)
xlabel('Period (s)','FontSize',20)
ylabel('Velocity (m.s^-^1)','FontSize',20)
I just get the first 10 values used for the 0:10 section, which isn't correct. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong with that
Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 10 Mar 2014
I'm not able to reproduce what you're describing (guessing at pmin, pmax)
surf(1:100,1:100,magic(100));
set(gca,'XScale','log');
view(2)
set(gca,'XTick',2:(pmax-pmin)/10:102,'XTicklabel',round(2:(pmax-pmin)/10:102))

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