MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB Graphics
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MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB Graphics
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Create plots in MATLAB
Function: plot()
• e.g. plot(x,y) % For 2D plot, minimum 2 parameters
o Code: x=0:pi/10:4*pi; y=sin(x) and plot(x,y)
o % Use other parameters
o plot(x, y, 'r') or
o plot(x, y, 'r:')
• For more color options, see slide # 5.
• title (‘My plot Title')
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• xlabel (‘my plot x label’);
•ylabel (‘my plot y label’)
• grid on/off
• legend ('sin(x) Curve’)
• text (x pos, y pos, ‘Your text’
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MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d) Legend
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Plot title
Light Intensity as a Function of Distance
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Theory
Experiment
y axis 1000
label
Text
Tick-mark
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INTENSITY (lux)
Comparison between theory and experiment.
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Data symbol
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x axis Tick-mark label
label
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MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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For multiple plots, use hold on command
• e.g. x=0:pi/10:4*pi;
• y=4*sin(x);
• z=3*cos(x);
• yz = 3*cos(x) + 4*sin(x);
• plot(x,y,'r-*')
• % specify color in RGB format
• plot(x,y, 'color', [1 0 1], 'linestyle', ':')
• hold on;
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• plot(x,z, 'g:s')
• hold on;
• plot(x,yz, ‘b-’)
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MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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Multiple plots on same figure,
x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
y1 = sin(x);
y2 = sin(x-0.25);
y3 = sin(x-0.5);
figure
plot(x,y1,x,y2,'--',x,y3,':')
Plot with two Y-axes
•e.g. x=0:pi/10:10*pi; y1=sin(x);
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• y2=exp(x);
• plotyy(x,y1,x,y2)
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MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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Other plots:
To plot single line/vector,
use plot(x)
• e.g. x=0:pi/10:10*pi;
• plot(x)
use Line command
• e.g. x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
• y1 = sin(x);
• line(x, y1)
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• x = [1 9];
•y = [2 12];
• line(x,y, ‘color', ‘green', ‘lineStyle','--')
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MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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More simple plots:
To plot single line/vector,
use plot(x)
• e.g. x=0:pi/10:10*pi;
• plot(x)
use Line command
• e.g. x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
• y1 = sin(x);
• line(x, y1)
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• x = [1 9];
•y = [2 12];
• line(x,y, ‘Color', ‘green', ‘LineStyle','—’)
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MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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More simple plots (Cont’d):
fplot() option or ezplot():
• Used to plot a function
• e.g.
• fplot('3*x^3 - x^2 + 2*x +cos(pi*x) - 1', [-4*pi 4*pi])
• fplot('3cos(x) + 4*sin(x)', [-4*pi 4*pi])
• fplot('3*x^3 - x^2 + 2*x +cos(pi*x) - 1', [-4*pi 4*pi])
•fplot('(1+0.9*cos(8*x))*(1+0.1*cos(24*x))*(0.9+0.05*c
os(200*x))*(1+sin(1*x))', [-1*pi 1*pi])
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• oplot=ezplot('(x^2+y^2-1)^3 - x^2*y^3',[-2,2,-1.5,1.5])
• Also have fun with ezsurf()
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MATLAB Graphics (Cont’d)
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Sub plots: subplot(rows, columns,No.) : create a subplot in
an array
>> subplot(2,3,1); P=1 P=2 P=3
>> subplot(2,3,4);
m
P=4
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MATLAB 3D Plot & Contour plot
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surf command
• e.g.
• dx = linspace(0,20,3);
• Lx = linspace(0,20,5);
• M = [0 10 20; 10 40 50; 0 100 150; 195 250 300; 0 150
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• surf(dx,Lx,M) % Column of dx must match with
columns of M and columns of Lx must match with rows
of M
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MATLAB Graphics
MATLAB 3D Plot & Contour plot
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contour command
• e.g.
• dx = linspace(0,20,3);
• Lx = linspace(0,20,5);
• M = [0 10 20; 10 40 50; 0 100 150; 195 250 300; 0 150
800];
• contour(dx,Lx,M)
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Line style and colour options
MatLab Graphics (Cont’d)
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Plot Marker options
MatLab Graphics (Cont’d)
MATLAB Graphics
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MATLAB Graphics
Plot Formatting
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MATLAB Figure editable.
• plot(x, y, 'r') or
• plot(x, y, 'r:')
• For more color options, see slide # 5.
• title (‘My plot Title')
• xlabel (‘my plot x label’);
•ylabel (‘my plot y label’)
• grid on/off
• legend ('sin(x) Curve’)
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• text (x pos, y pos, ‘Your text’
Other option is to get plot as object
• oplot=plot(x,y)
• set(oplot, ‘Color',’red’)
• set(oplot, 'LineWidth',2)
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MATLAB Figure
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MATLAB Figure editable.
• Open figure >> Edit menu and edit all possible options
• Save file for later use
• In order to copy in MS word,
o Edit menu >> click ‘Copy Figure’ and paste in MS
word.
You can also generate code of the figure.
• Open figure, File menu >> ‘Generate Code’
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