alphawarp
Drapes a semi-transparent and possibly distorted image over a figure.
This can be used to display a variable on top of a background image.
USAGE: h=alphawarp(x,y,c,alpha)
EXAMPLE:
P=imread('peppers.png');
P=repmat(mean(im2double(P),3),[1 1 3]);%make a (gray) RGB-image so that it does not influence colorbar
image(P);
[X,Y]=meshgrid(100:300,100:300);
X=X+Y*.1;
Z=peaks((X-150)/100,(Y-150)/100);
alphawarp(X,Y,Z,.5);