Reducing the distance among subplot figures?
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I am using a subplot option to plot parts of a figure. Is there is a possibility to reduce the distance between the two figures, without affecting their dimensions (as shown by the arrows). For example, we can create more columns in subplot, but I am avoiding that. Thanks.
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Ron
on 4 Mar 2024
This is very very late for the answer but there is a very simple way to do this.
aa=subplot(122);
aa.Position(1)=0.51; %% position =[x_position y_position widht length] all are in some unit
you can check the position vectoor but simply typing aa in the console and itll display all the properties. from there you can start moving your figure. Please accept this answer because a lot many people are searching for this answer just like me but want a simple solution
MW
on 5 Mar 2024
Comments cannot be accepted. If you can write an answer with a small al visudemo of bringing the figures together, then that will be very helpful
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DGM
on 14 Aug 2021
This is a bit of a workaround, but I've been using it for a long time. It works in older versions and it doesn't require a bunch of tedious wrangling of plot properties.
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Sulaymon Eshkabilov
on 13 Aug 2021
Set up axis position of subplots, e,g:
x=0:1:360; y=-180:1:180; G = cos(x)+sin(y(:));
HA(1) = subplot(221);
surf(G)
HA(2) = subplot(222);
mesh(G)
set(HA(1))
POS = get(HA(1), 'Position' )
POS(1) = 0.02 ; % Position move
POS(3) = 0.5 ; % Position move
set(HA(1), 'Position', POS) ;
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DGM
on 14 Aug 2021
I'm not really sure how close you wanted them or whether this could be done with a single axes. Should the plot boxes stay slightly separated? Did you want to maintain the box size or maintain the outer positions?
x = rand(100,1);
% bring these two together by stretching the boxes
HA(1) = subplot(2,2,1);
plot(x)
HA(2) = subplot(2,2,2);
plot(x)
gapscale = 0; % zero gap
P = vertcat(HA.Position);
gap = P(2,1)-(P(1,1)+P(1,3));
P(:,3) = P(1,3)+gap*(1-gapscale)/2;
P(2,1) = P(2,1)-gap*(1-gapscale)/2;
HA(1).Position = P(1,:);
HA(2).Position = P(2,:);
HA(2).YTick = [];
% bring these two together by moving the boxes
HA(1) = subplot(2,2,3);
plot(x)
HA(2) = subplot(2,2,4);
plot(x)
gapscale = 0; % zero gap
P = vertcat(HA.Position);
gap = P(2,1)-(P(1,1)+P(1,3));
P(1,1) = P(1,1)+gap*(1-gapscale)/2;
P(2,1) = P(2,1)-gap*(1-gapscale)/2;
HA(1).Position = P(1,:);
HA(2).Position = P(2,:);
HA(2).YTick = [];
Either way, you're going to have to deal with the fact that the ticklabels collide
the cyclist
on 13 Aug 2021
Not a direct answer to this question, but the newer tiledlayout method has greater flexibility in this regard. (For example, there is a TileSpacing property that can be set to "compact", which is what you want.)
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