adjusting color in colorbar automatically

Hi Assume you have image with 4 colors in it and colormap is defined as :

cmap=[[0 0 1]; [1 0 0]; [0 1 0]; [1 1 0]]; I know range of my colorbar is from 0 to 1. Therefore each color is 0.25 range. meaning that it is from 0 to 0.25, 0.25 to 0.5 and so on. How can I do something that blue ([ 0 0 1]) is changed to 0 to 0.45 and for example red is changed to 0.45 to 0.60? something like this:

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See this demo:

clc;
workspace
grayImage = rand(200);
imshow(grayImage, []);
cmap=[[0 0 1]; [1 0 0]; [0 1 0]; [1 1 0]];
colormap(cmap);
colorbar;
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0 0 1 1]);
% Give a name to the title bar.
set(gcf, 'Name', 'Demo by ImageAnalyst', 'NumberTitle', 'Off') 

numberOfColors = 100; % Whatever, up to max of 256.
cmap = zeros(numberOfColors, 3);
% Bottom 45% of colors are blue.
index2 = round(0.45 * numberOfColors);
for row = 1 : index2
  cmap(row, :) = [0, 0, 1];
end
% Gray levels in the range 0.45 - 0.65 set to red.
index1 = round(0.45 * numberOfColors);
index2 = round(0.65 * numberOfColors);
for row = index1 : index2
  cmap(row, :) = [1, 0, 0];
end
% Gray levels in the range 0.65 - 0.8 set to green.
index1 = round(0.65 * numberOfColors);
index2 = round(0.8 * numberOfColors);
for row = index1 : index2
  cmap(row, :) = [0, 1, 0];
end
% Gray levels in the range 0.8 - 1.0 set to yellow.
index1 = round(0.8 * numberOfColors);
index2 = numberOfColors;
for row = index1 : index2
  cmap(row, :) = [1, 1, 0];
end
colormap(cmap);

Answer 2

[Kelly Kearney]

You'd have to repeat colors in the colormap the appropriate number of times. In this particular example, repeat each entry 9,4,3, and 4 times, respectively. My cptcmap function makes it easy to define colormaps with uneven intervals like this:

cmap = [[0 0 1]; [1 0 0]; [0 1 0]; [1 1 0]];
lim = [0 0.45 0.6 0.8 1];
ctable = [lim(1:end-1)' cmap*255 lim(2:end)' cmap*255];
save mycol.cpt ctable -ascii;

figure;
imagesc(rand(100));
cptcmap('mycol', 'mapping', 'direct', 'ncol', 20); 
colorbar;

You really shouldn't need to specify the number of colors in this example (that option is supposed to be for colormap intervals that don't divide so nicely), but I just caught a bug in my own code... oops. Will update that right away.

[chess]

can you please tell me what is cptcmap?I have never seen anything like this.

[Kelly Kearney]

It's one of my functions, posted on the FEX. I linked it in my post above, but here it is again, not quite as hidden:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28943-color-palette-tables---cpt--for-matlab

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

You could also try the colormap editor:

>>colormapeditor

(Also available in the figure under "Edit" -> "Colormap")

[chess]

I know about that I like to do it using code in the command window.