Assign custom interval to the color map z axis of a surf plot

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My surf (z) plot ranges from 0 to 255. i used turbo color map but the ranges per color were quite even across the value. i would like to able to set uneven custom interval for the colormap of my surf plot. I have checked through resources online, but could not figure it out for my case. Thanks in advance.
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OLUWAFEMI AKINMOLAYAN
OLUWAFEMI AKINMOLAYAN on 15 Jul 2022
Edited: OLUWAFEMI AKINMOLAYAN on 15 Jul 2022
The data is quite larger than 5mb. i could not upload it. I just need an example. I can adapt it to my case
OLUWAFEMI AKINMOLAYAN
OLUWAFEMI AKINMOLAYAN on 15 Jul 2022
surf(peaks)
colormap turbo(7)
colorbar
The above is an example. However, I want to be able to use a custom interval. Instead of default range of even division of interval for the colors, I want a custom one.

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Mathieu NOE
Mathieu NOE on 15 Jul 2022
hello
try my little demo
the colorbar is "frozen" so that ticks / tickslabels do not vary acccording to data range. In other words , you can display data which max value can be either below or above the max value of the thresholds without graphical impact.
see the 2 examples shown below
hope it helps
Z = 5*abs(Z); % modify here the magnification factor to see effects on plot
Z = 50*abs(Z); % modify here the magnification factor to see effects on plot
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(50);
Z = 50*abs(Z); % modify here the magnification factor to see effects on plot
[maxval, ~] = max(Z(:));
[minval, ~] = min(Z(:));
maxval = ceil(maxval);
minval = floor(minval);
thresholds = [0 20 100 155 231 240 250 255]; % absolute thresholds for data ( 0-20, 20-100, 100-155, 155-231, 231- 240, 240-250, 250-255)
n_thr = numel(thresholds);
mycolormap = jet(n_thr); % NB : Z data can be higher than max value of thresholds
colormap(mycolormap);
% create scaled color values C
C = zeros(size(Z));
for ck=1:n_thr-1
C(Z >= thresholds(ck) & Z < thresholds(ck+1)) = ck; %
end
C(Z >thresholds(end)) = ck+1; % do not forget data higher than max (last) value of thresholds
% plot
figure(1)
surf(X,Y,Z, C);
caxis([1 n_thr]); % freeze C axis (color) range
axis([-3 3 -3 3 0 maxval]);
cb_yticklabels = arrayfun(@num2str,thresholds,'uni',false);
cbh = colorbar;
set(cbh,'ytick',1+(n_thr-1)*(0:n_thr-1)/n_thr);
set(cbh,'yticklabel',cb_yticklabels);
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