Examples of some very attractive figures built in Matlab, along with the code to generate them: [[http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/gallery.html?s_eid=PSM_9295&refresh=true|www.mathworks.com/discovery/gallery.html]]

Many of these examples use the parula colormap, introduced in Matlab 2014b to replace "jet" as the default colormap. If you have an earlier version of Matlab then you can download parula.m here: [[http://pastebin.com/D6kKcqQi|pastebin.com/D6kKcqQi]]