MATLAB: Problem with figure legend in loop for selecting multiple columns

figure plotting with loopslegend colors

I am having difficulty with my legend displaying the correct colors for a loop plotting figure.
To trouble shoot, I have tried matrices and cell formats for my x and y variables. Both x and y contain 6 sets of 70×70 matrices. (So, for the matrix format, it becomes a 70×420 matrix)
Here the code works with the legend (where x and y are a 70×70 matrix)
N=6; 
figure
hold on
clr = jet(N);   
for j=1:N;
    plot(x(1:end,j), y(1:end,j), 'Color',clr(j,:))
end 
hold off
str = cellstr( num2str((1:N)','Run%d') );%

legend(str)
This creates a figure that displays different colors on the legend corresponding to the plot colors correctly
However, when I try to select various sets of columns in my 70×70 matrix in the x and y matrix, the legend colors become corrupt and display 4 blues and 2 cyan:
N=6;
figure
hold on
clr = jet(N);   
for j=1:N;
    plot(x(1:end,j:j+1), y(1:end,j:j+1), 'Color',clr(j,:))
end
hold off
str = cellstr( num2str((1:N)','Run%d') );%
legend(str)
Does anyone know how to fix the second image to correlate plot and legend colors? Why is it only when I try to select various columns?

Best Answer

BYUBeetleGirl - looking closely at the colours in your second legend, there appears to be three distinct sets....which match the first three colours (or runs) in your first legend. The problem is because of
 plot(x(1:end,j:j+1), y(1:end,j:j+1), 'Color',clr(j,:))
On each iteration of your for loop you are creating (I suspect) two plots and so two handles to two different graphics objects are being created. Consider the following
 hObj = plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1));
vs
 hObjs =  plot(rand(10,2),rand(10,2));
The former (like your first example) creates a handle to a single graphics object hObj, whereas the latter (like your second example) creates two handles to two graphics objects hObjs.
In your code, since the same colour is used for each pair and the legend is only interested in the first six graphics objects on your figure, then we will only see the first three colours.
I think that what you want to do is convert your matrices
 x(1:end,j:j+1), y(1:end,j:j+1)
into arrays using reshape as
 plot(reshape(x(1:end,j:j+1),[],1), reshape(y(1:end,j:j+1),[],1), 'Color',clr(j,:))
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