How do I edit the axes of an image in MATLAB to reverse the direction?

axes, image-processing, matlab, plot

Solution

To reverse an axis, you can set the `'XDir'` or `'YDir'` property of the current axes to `'reverse'`:

set(gca,'XDir','reverse');  %# This flips the x axis

Keep in mind that flipping an axis in this way flips everything in the plot as well. This probably isn't what you want to do for the y axis. You probably just want to flip the y axis labels, which you can do by modifying the `'YTickLabel'` property in the following way:

yLimits = get(gca,'YLim');  %# Get the y axis limits
yTicks = yLimits(2)-get(gca,'YTick');  %# Get the y axis tick values and
                                       %#   subtract them from the upper limit
set(gca,'YTickLabel',num2str(yTicks.'));  %'# Convert the tick values to strings
                                           %#   and update the y axis labels

Problem

I would like to edit the axes in my series of images being displayed. This is what my image looks like: As you can see, it ranges from 0 to about 500 from top to bottom. Can I invert that? Plus, I want to mirror the image being shown, so that it starts from left to right... or, if it's possible, to let the axes show from right to left.

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