mufun

Matlab utility functions for convenience.

Summary

vis: utility functions for making plots. Recommended for making figures for the papers.

io: utility functions for matlab class and function's input and output handling.

Key functionality

Plots

open_figure() automatically removes unnecessary margins in the default matlab figure setting, and it sets default text interpreter to latex. It can be used in a similar way to basic matlab figure function. Use open_figure('margin', 'tight') to get the smallest margin.

set_axis() can be used to set properties of an individual axis.

save_figure('file_name', 'cool_figure') is used to safe a figure to a file.

Example:

x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
y = sin(x);

palette = get_palette_colors();

% Use this instead of normal 'figure' function.
open_figure();
p = plot(x,y);
p.LineWidth = 1.5; p.Color = palette.blue;
% No need to set interpreter to latex manually.
xlabel('$x$');
ylabel('$\sin(x)$');
title('$\sin(x)$');
save_figure('file_name', 'simple', 'file_format', 'png');

Functions

parse_function_args(varargin) is used to parse keyword input arguments to a matlab function.

parse_obj_args(varargin) is used to parse keyword input arguments to a matlab class method.

Example:

function output1 = example_function(input1, varargin)
if nargin >=2
  kwargs = parse_function_args(varargin{:});
end