matlab contourf with gradual change of color

Question

folks,

I have an image matrix and created the following figure using

contourf(my_matrix)
colorbar

Is it possible to make the color change gradually between the contour lines, instead of filling these spaces with solid color?

Thanks very much for your help.

Solution 1

Cinico's solution didn't work for me. Here's what I used:

% Set Data
data = (1:100)'*(1:100);

figure;
subplot(1,2,1)
% Binned Color
contourf(data);
subplot(1,2,2)
% Gradual Color
pcolor(data);
hold on;
shading interp; 
contour(data,'LineColor','k')

Output:

Solution 2

try shading interp command after the plot is done

but...

the most probable thing is that your data is not "gradual". What I mean is: either you have value 2 or 4 or 10 etc, not 2.2 or 4.6 or 10.1 etc.

So, you could not have the intermediate colours because that would mean that you would have intermediate values (which you don't).