Table-like subplot with labels in X and Y

Question

I am trying to plot some figures in a table like way.

so e.g. I have 3x4 grid of subplots (each one is a surf) and I want to have labels in the X and Y axis, something like:

    thingy1     thingy2     thingy3
a1   sp341       sp342        ...
a2     ...        ...         ...
a3     ...        ...         ...
a4     ...        ...         ...

where sp341 means subplot(3,4,1). To do this, I tried for thingyN using title and for aN using 'ylabel' (I view the surfs from z, so it works). This give me some nice results.

However, I also want axis off, so only the surface is seen! (what an annoying guy I am). As you may suspect, this also deletes the ylabels, with the axis.

Any way of workaround-ing this? I just need it for reporting purposes, so it doesnt need to be a general solution, an "ugly" way of solving it may work (as using ylabel is).

Answer 1

The axis off command hides the labels, but does not delete them.
In order for them to appear you should do something like that:

h1 = ylabel('a1');
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hN = ylabel('aN');
axis off
set(h1,'Visible','on')
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set(hN,'Visible','on')