File Exchange Pick of the Week

January 2nd, 2009

Jiro's pick this week is textbp by Peter Mao.

Have you ever wanted to place a text on a figure (using TEXT), and end up spending time trying to figure out a nice location where it doesn't cover up the data? To be reusable for arbitrary data, you have to be clever in determining the X-Y location.

If only MATLAB could do this work for you...

Peter took on this challenge, and wrote textbp. With this, you can simply ask MATLAB to place the text at the "best" location. Now, that's clever.

plot(membrane(6));
textbp('This doesn''t cover up any data');
textbp('This one doesn''t either');
textbp('Niether does this');
textbp('Nor this');

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By Jiro Doke

Jiro is an application engineer at MathWorks. His job allows him to evangelize about MATLAB by traveling around the country to various universities and companies. He is a MATLAB addict, but he doesn't seem to mind being labeled as one.

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3 Responses to “Automatic Text Placement”

1. Nosmo replied on January 7th, 2009 at 15:06 UTC :
   

   This looks great. If it had a spell checker that would be even better (neither not niether).
   Thanks for this!

2. jiro replied on January 7th, 2009 at 15:18 UTC :
   

   Ha! Good catch. If it were a mistake in an equation, I would’ve noticed it. :)

3. biao replied on May 22nd, 2010 at 17:52 UTC :
   

   it seems this function doesn’t support 3D graph, for instance, plot3d, surf.

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