MATLAB: How to have three figures side-by-side to create one composite figure

composite figureindependent color mapsunique colormaps per axes

Hi guys,
A basic question. I have the below test input. I want to put the three generated figures side-by-side and export it as one image like I am doing now. But I want these figures to be side-by-side and have some form of a border/separation/panel between them? I want to create ONE horizontal figure composed of these three 'sub-figures' (i.e., a composite figure).
Thank you
figure(1)
surf(peaks);
colormap(winter);
title('FIGURE 1A', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
figure(2)
surf(peaks);
colormap(autumn);
title('FIGURE 1B', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
figure(3)
surf(peaks);
colormap(spring);
title('FIGURE 1C', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
export_fig FIGURE_1.tiff -m3 -q101 -nocrop

Best Answer

Try this:
h1 = subplot(1,3,1);
surf(peaks);
colormap(h1, winter);
axis square;
title('FIGURE 1A', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0 0 1 1]);
h2 = subplot(1,3,2);
surf(peaks);
axis square;
colormap(h2, autumn);
title('FIGURE 1B', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
h3 = subplot(1,3,3);
surf(peaks);
colormap(spring);
axis square;
title('FIGURE 1C', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')
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