axis of evil

i love me some square axes:

axis square;

i am also always setting axes bounds:

axis([xmin xmax ymin ymax]);

but there are tons of other axis options i have not checked out fully.

axis 'auto yz';

axis auto
axis manual
axis tight
axis fill
axis ij
axis xy
axis equal
axis image 
axis square
axis vis3d
axis normal
axis off
axis on

aesthetics people, aesthetics...

and another reason that matlab beats the pants off of excel.