Plot a data series beneath another one

Question

When you plot things in Matlab, the most recently plotted data series is placed on top of whatever's already there. For example:

figure; hold on
plot(sin(linspace(0,pi)),'linewidth',4,'color',[0 0 1])
plot(cos(linspace(0,pi)),'linewidth',4,'color',[1 0 0])

Here, the red line is shown on top of the blue line (where they intersect). Is there any way to set "how deep" a line is drawn, so that you can plot things beneath what's already there?

Answer 1

Use the uistack command. For example:

h1 = plot(1:10, 'b');
hold on;
h2 = plot(1:10, 'r');

will plot two lines with the red line plotted on top of the blue line. If you then do:

uistack(h1);

the blue line will be brought to the front.