A one-stop shop to instantly make your MATLAB scripts and plots beautiful, publication-ready and colorblind friendly.
To use prettify_matlab:
- clone the repository and it's dependancies
- add the repository folder to MATLAB's path.
prettify_matlab doesn't use any of MATLAB's add-on toolboxes.
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colorbrewer, to generate colormaps
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rgb - modified version (called with
prettify_rgb()) already included.
Run prettify_current_code; to prettify your current script open in the MATLAB editor. All code editing rules are stored in the formatRules.xml file, where they can easily be changed.
Run prettify_plot; to prettify your current figure (includes all subplots). Includes options to modify the background color, text size and homogenize x and y limits across plots.
Run prettify_colorblind_simulator; to plot your current figure as it would seen with different types of color blindness.
Uses the matrices from:
Gustavo M. Machado, Manuel M. Oliveira, and Leandro A. F. Fernandes "A Physiologically-based Model for Simulation of Color Vision Deficiency". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Volume 15 (2009), Number 6, November/December 2009. pp. 1291-1298.
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- Perceptually-uniform, colorblind friendly colormaps.
- Prettify colorbars and labels
- wrap titles/labels
- shaded, shaded gradual