Fl?vio> I just want to let you know that neither 'cla', 'clf' nor
Fl?vio> 'figure' solved the issue but 'close' did it. I must
Fl?vio> point out that the only element that was being carried out
Fl?vio> from figure to figure was the colorbar, not the plot
Fl?vio> itself. Apparently 'close' is the only one of these
Fl?vio> functions that gets rid of the colorbar.
Yep, cla would not be expected to do anything, since both the image
and colorbar are spearate axes. So cla, clf and close are working as
advertised -- and that's a good thing 
JDH