Wednesday, October 13, 2010

[Matlab] How does the imagesc work

The Matlab function imagesc automatically scales the data matrices to be displayed as a colored figure. The actual color depends on the color map used.

How does the scaling work? Actually, it is just a linear scaling which maps the original data values to the color map indices. 

A blog post from Steve explained it detailedly, which can be found http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2006/02/10/all-about-pixel-colors-part-3/.

The equation used to scale the data matrices is 

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