MATLAB: Inserting colorbar in surf plots.

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Hello Everyone,
I am using surf function to create a 3D shaded surface plot. I also define a variable C which is a 3 dimensional matrix. So if my number of rows and columns in Z is 155*125, my dimension of C matrix is 155*125*3.. I fill the color matrix C with RGB colors depending upon my criteria. The problem is when I want to display colorbar in my plot, I still get the standard RGB colorbar instead of the color matrix defined by me.
How can I modify the colorbar properties, so that it shows the actual colour being used in the plot.
thanks

Best Answer

Use the colormap function to set the figure's colormap to the one of your choice.
More per clarification:
%Emulate your C and Z
C = imresize(imread('peppers.png'),0.1);
Z = peaks(length(C));
Z = Z(1:size(C,1),1:ize(C,2));
%Surf it, facecolor is texturemap
surf(Z,C,'FaceColor','TextureMap');
%Extract 64 unique colors using rgb2ind, set it as the map and add colorbar
% For the peppers image this will look weird but if you have a good rgb
% image it will scale correctly.
[X, map] = rgb2ind(C,64);
colormap(map);
colorbar;
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