How to draw a line on a image between the pixels?

When I use the line command :

 line([1,512],[99,99],'Color','r','LineWidth',2)

I'm getting a line at the centre of a pixel's area. But I want the line to be outside the pixels i.e between two pixels.

Can anyone help me out!!

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

To burn a line into the image (if that's what you want to do), see attached demo.

If you want to put the line into the graphics overlay above the image, use the line() function.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Graphics devices that use pixels (that is, any graphics device you are likely to encounter!) work by adjusting the brightness at each pixel. You cannot draw between pixels because it is pixels that are the drawing mechanism.

Is it possible that what you really mean is that you have an image that you are displaying into a larger area than the number of array locations would require, so each image pixel is occupying multiple device pixels, and you want to draw between image pixels?

Another possibility is that you are rather indirectly talking about problems with anti-aliasing, that your lines might not appear sharp. If so then see the AlignVertexCenters line property.

[Varshini Guddanti]

Yeah. I now tried to change each pixel value to black to display a line instead of using line() function. Thanks though!

Answer 3

[Dalibor Knis]

Raster image consists of pixels with no space in between them. So you cannot draw a line between pixels. Might you managed that you would be breaking into another space :-)

But if you want to draw a line anywhere between pixel centers that all you need is to specify line end-points locations as decimals.

e.g:

imagesc(ones(10,10))
line([2 2 3 3 2], [2 3 3 2 2],'color','r')
line([2.4 2.4 2.6 2.6 2.4], [2.4 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.4],'color','r')

The outer square connects neighboring pixel centers. The inner square is in between.