MATLAB, Filling in the area between two sets of data, lines in one figure

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Building off of @gnovice’s answer, you can actually create filled plots with shading only in the area between the two curves. Just use fill in conjunction with fliplr.

Example:

x=0:0.01:2*pi;                  %#initialize x array
y1=sin(x);                      %#create first curve
y2=sin(x)+.5;                   %#create second curve
X=[x,fliplr(x)];                %#create continuous x value array for plotting
Y=[y1,fliplr(y2)];              %#create y values for out and then back
fill(X,Y,'b');                  %#plot filled area

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By flipping the x array and concatenating it with the original, you’re going out, down, back, and then up to close both arrays in a complete, many-many-many-sided polygon.

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