{"id":361,"date":"2009-03-27T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/03\/27\/setting-the-colormap-to-be-consistent-across-axes\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:21:46","slug":"setting-the-colormap-to-be-consistent-across-axes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/03\/27\/setting-the-colormap-to-be-consistent-across-axes\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the colormap to be consistent across axes."},"content":{"rendered":"I love getting short, concise questions from fellow MATLAB users.  One that I got recently looked like this:\r\n<pre>I have some data that I want to plot with contourf using a colormap that spans from 0 to 1, but with everything I have tried the range keeps resetting to the range of the current data being plotted.  I want a constant colormap range so that I can accurately compare plots with data that span different ranges.<\/pre>\r\nThis is a question that is applicable to many people, in different situations.  The short answer is that you set the CLIM property of the axes.  The long answer is in the video!\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877437997001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/03\/27\/setting-the-colormap-to-be-consistent-across-axes\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/60848235-6f7b-4446-879a-9045e8e88844\/c14a5ca1-bbc6-40d1-b880-ee4cdff08312\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">1:43<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>I love getting short, concise questions from fellow MATLAB users.  One that I got recently looked like this:\r\nI have some data that I want to plot with contourf using a colormap that spans from 0 to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/03\/27\/setting-the-colormap-to-be-consistent-across-axes\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}