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see also Matlab plot formats and how to quickly save high quality figures for hgx, a function to handle exporting figures.
The new graphics system in Matlab 2014b has a few handy features, including:
- Perceptually-equally spaced default colours (although be careful, red is near green)
- OpenGL hardware rendering - smooth lines!
- Easier access to handle properties using structure syntax - eg. handle.FontSize = 12, instead of set(handle, 'FontSize', 12).
Even so, it still takes a little bit of effort to render nice figures and graph in Matlab, the default settings don't look great. Generally lines need to be made thicker, fonts bigger, etc., etc. Each setting requiring a line of code. Also, OpenGL can be a bit unreliable; it switches to software rendering on a whim, which disables features like anti-aliasing.
