How to create tiledlayout grid in vertical order

Hello,

How to create tiledlayout grid in vertical order?

Let's say I want to create a tiledlayout(3,2), matlab default order is

1 2

3 4

5 6

But I want the lay out to be:

1 4

2 5

3 6

How do I do that?

Thanks,

Ping

Answer 1

[Dyuman Joshi]

Change the Tile-indexing to Column Major, the default is Row Major.

tiledlayout(3, 2, 'TileIndexing', 'columnmajor')

nexttile
fplot(@sin, 'k')
title('1')

nexttile
fplot(@cos, 'r')
title('2')

nexttile
scatter(rand(1,10),rand(1,10), [], [1 0 1])
title('3')

nexttile
fplot(@(x) x.^2, 'g')
title('4')

nexttile
fsurf(@(x,y) sin(x)+cos(y))
title('5')

nexttile
fimplicit(@(x,y) x.^2 - y.^2 - 1)
title('6')

[Les Beckham]

Wow! I didn't know that that option existed. Thanks for teaching me something new today.

[Dyuman Joshi]

You are welcome haha.

It is kinda hidden, as it is not mentioned in the documentation page of tiledlayout.

But if you go this particular page to explore all the properties of tiledlayout, you will find it in the layout subsection - https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.layout.tiledchartlayout-properties.html

[Les Beckham]

Yeah, I did some digging after seeing your answer and finally found it on that page. Another hidden gem.

[ping zhao]

Thank you for all the anwsers!

Ping

[ani-per]

Thanks Dyuman! That option should really be exposed on the documentation, it's really helpful.

Answer 2

[Voss]

Set up variables:

n_rows = 3;
n_cols = 2;

n = n_rows*n_cols;

data = (1:n)+zeros(10,1);

Default tiledlayout order, for reference:

figure
tiledlayout(n_rows,n_cols)
for ii = 1:n
    nexttile()
    plot(data(:,ii))
    title(sprintf('%d',ii));
    xlim([1 10])
    ylim([0 n+1])
end

Reordering the layout:

idx = reshape(1:n,n_cols,[]).'

idx = 3×2

1 2 3 4 5 6

figure
tiledlayout(n_rows,n_cols)
for ii = 1:n
    nexttile(idx(ii))
    plot(data(:,ii))
    title(sprintf('%d',ii));
    xlim([1 10])
    ylim([0 n+1])
end

Answer 3

[Les Beckham]

The tiles are always numbered by row, column, but you can plot into the tiles in whatever order you want by specifying the tile (using Matlab's ordering).

tiledlayout(3,2)
nexttile
title 'First plot'
nexttile(3)
title 'Second plot'
nexttile(5)
title 'Third plot'
nexttile(2)
title 'Fourth plot'
nexttile(4)
title 'Fifth plot'
nexttile(6)
title 'Sixth plot'