Question

When you plot things in Matlab, the most recently plotted data series is placed on top of whatever’s already there. For example:

figure; hold on plot(sin(linspace(0,pi)),'linewidth',4,'color',[0 0 1]) plot(cos(linspace(0,pi)),'linewidth',4,'color',[1 0 0]) 

Here, the red line is shown on top of the blue line (where they intersect). Is there any way to set ‘how deep’ a line is drawn, so that you can plot things beneath what’s already there?

Answer 1

Use the uistack command. For example:

h1 = plot(1:10, 'b'); hold on; h2 = plot(1:10, 'r'); 

will plot two lines with the red line plotted on top of the blue line. If you then do:

uistack(h1); 

the blue line will be brought to the front.