## IMAGEPROPERTIES Image Object Properties

Section: Handle-Based Graphics

### Usage

Below is a summary of the properties for the axis.

- `alphadata` - `vector` - This is a vector that should contain as many elements as the image data itself `cdata`, or a single scalar. For a single scalar, all values of the image take on the same transparency. Otherwise, the transparency of each pixel is determined by the corresponding value from the `alphadata` vector.
- `alphadatamapping` - `{'scaled','direct','none'}` - For `none` mode (the default), no transparency is applied to the data. For `direct` mode, the vector `alphadata` contains values between @[0,M-1]| where `M` is the length of the alpha map stored in the figure. For `scaled` mode, the `alim` vector for the figure is used to linearly rescale the alpha data prior to lookup in the alpha map.
- `cdata` - `array` - This is either a `M x N` array or an `M x N x 3` array. If the data is `M x N` the image is a scalar image (indexed mode), where the color associated with each image pixel is computed using the colormap and the `cdatamapping` mode. If the data is `M x N x 3` the image is assumed to be in RGB mode, and the colorpanes are taken directly from `cdata` (the colormap is ignored). Note that in this case, the data values must be between @[0,1]| for each color channel and each pixel.
- `cdatamapping` - `{'scaled','direct'}` - For `scaled` (the default), the pixel values are scaled using the `clim` vector for the figure prior to looking up in the colormap. For `direct` mode, the pixel values must be in the range `[0,N-1` where `N` is the number of colors in the colormap if the data is integer type. For floating point data types, values must be in the range `[1,N]`.
- `children` - Not used.
- `parent` - `handle` - The axis containing the image.
- `tag` - `string` - You can set this to any string you want.
- `type` - `string` - Set to the string `'image'`.
- `xdata` - `two vector` - contains the x coordinates of the first and last column (respectively). Defaults to `[1,C]` where `C` is the number of columns in the image.
- `ydata` - `two vector` - contains the y coordinates of the first and last row (respectively). Defaults to `[1,R]` where `R` is the number of rows in the image.
- `userdata` - `array` - Available to store any variable you want in the handle object.
- `visible` - `{'on','off'}` - Controls whether the image is visible or not.