Need a explanation for the matlab code snippet

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Published on 2010-04-08T17:02:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 17:03 UTC
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%# load a grayscale image
img = imread('coins.png');

%# display the image
figure
imshow(img,[]);

%# false-color
colormap('hot')

The above code is from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2592755/infrared-image-processing-in-matlab/2592793#2592793

But I don't understand how figure(What's the difference with/without it?) and colormap(How does it affect the already shown img?) work?

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