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    Modifying a Colormap Interactively

    (Originally posted on Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials blog.)

    I was doing a visualization and needed to change to a custom colormap to get a better understanding of the data. This video shows how to interactively modify a colormap such that NaN values take on one color, and there is a sharp division of color between negative and positive numbers.

    Recorded: 12 Dec 2012

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