My white and black strips becomes a a black surface using imread and imshow

I have a .PNG picture containing black and white strips shown below.

I was trying show this image in MATLAB using imread and imshow:

strips = imread('strip.png')
imshow(strips)

after running these two lines of code, the image becomes a black surface, shown below:

I thought maybe all the black strips were squished together and zooming could solve the problem, but it did not.

How can I show the original image?

[Geoff Hayes]

Fan - what happens if you use image instead? i.e.

image(strips)

If that doesn't work, what are the dimensions of strips?

[Dave B]

It seems to work with the image you included in your question, maybe attach the original?

im=imread('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/740714/image.png');
imshow(im)

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try imshow with []:

imshow(strips, [])