MATLAB: Can I shift the position of a tile in tiledlayout to be skewed

subplottiledlayout

Is it possible to get a layout like the picture below using tiledlayout?

For the plots below I've used subplot(3,2,5.5) for the last plot. I would like to use tiledlayout instead, as there I can remove the white space between the plots.

Is there a way to get the following layout and remove rebundant white space between the subplots?

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I think that such a layout violates the definition of "tiled" and therefore will not be possible with tiledlayout, however this File Exchange file,

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3696-subaxis-subplot

gives you all the same flexibility as subplot, but in addition allows you to control inter-plot spacing. E.g.,

subaxis(2,2,1,1); plot(1:5)
subaxis(2,2,2,1); plot(1:5)
subaxis(2,2,1.5,2); plot(1:5)

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MATLAB: How to remove labels and grey space between subplots so that the subplots fill-up the entire figure

For MATLAB releases before R2019b, the following example code creates 2x2 plots, using the 'subplot' function and modifies the axes properties such that the subplots fill-up the entire figure window:

subplot(2,2,1);
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);
imagesc(Z);
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
ax.Position = [0 0.5 0.5 0.5];
subplot(2,2,2);
contour(X,Y,Z)
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
ax.Position = [0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5];
subplot(2,2,3);
imagesc(Z);
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
ax.Position = [0 0 0.5 0.5];
subplot(2,2,4);
contour(X,Y,Z);
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
ax.Position = [0.5 0 0.5 0.5];

There is a slightly elegant way of doing this in R2019b using the 'tiledlayout' function instead of 'subplot':

t = tiledlayout(2,2);
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);
% Tile 1
nexttile
imagesc(Z)
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
% Tile 2
nexttile
contour(X,Y,Z)
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
% Tile 3
nexttile
imagesc(Z)
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
% Tile 4
nexttile
contour(X,Y,Z)
ax = gca;
set(ax,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
t.Padding = 'none';
t.TileSpacing = 'none';

Note that the last two commands get rid of all the space between the tiled plots.

MATLAB: How an I manipulate top and bottom x axes individually

Actually, dpb's suggestion of 2 axes should work as long as you don't turn "box on", and you may need to sync their positions if you do things like add axis labels, etc.

fig = figure;
ax(1) = axes(fig,'Color','none');
ax(2) = axes(fig,'Color','none');
ax(2).YAxisLocation = 'right';
ax(2).XAxisLocation = 'top';
ax(2).XAxis.TickDirection = 'out'
ax(1).YAxis.TickDirection = 'out'

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