Changing colormap of individual subplot

Hello I am trying to learn how to change the colormap of a individual subplot. I have looked online and tried apply other peoples method to change my colormap but they all continue to be the same color. I am very new to MATLAB so I apologize in advance for any mistakes I make. I am running MATLAB 2014a on Mac OS X.

x=randn(1,10000);
a=sort(x);
y=x;
b=sort(y);
[X,Y]=meshgrid(a,b);
z=(1000/sqrt(2*pi).*exp(-(X.^2/2)-(Y.^2/2)));
subplot(2,2,1)
surf(X,Y,z);
shading interp
axis tight
colormap cool

Thank you in advance for any help.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

That used to be one of Matlabs weak spots. R2014b changed that.

There are several tools in the File Exchange, which mimics multiple colormaps. See

• freezeColors / unfreezeColors, by John Iversen
• and seaarch for more Multiple Colormaps