Graphics :: Function Reference (MATLAB®)

Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Basic Plots and Graphs

LineSpec (Line Specification)

• Plotting Tools

• Annotating Plots

xlabel, ylabel, zlabel

• Specialized Plotting

• Area, Bar, and Pie Plots

• Contour Plots

• Direction and Velocity Plots

• Discrete Data Plots

• Function Plots

• Polygons and Surfaces

• Scatter/Bubble Plots

• Bit-Mapped Images

print, printopt

• Handle Graphics

• Graphics Object Identification

• Object Creation

• Annotation Objects

Annotation Arrow Properties

Annotation Doublearrow Properties

Annotation Ellipse Properties

Annotation Line Properties

Annotation Rectangle Properties

Annotation Textarrow Properties

Annotation Textbox Properties

• Plot Objects

Areaseries Properties

Barseries Properties

Contourgroup Properties

Errorbarseries Properties

Lineseries Properties

Quivergroup Properties

Scattergroup Properties

Stairseries Properties

Stemseries Properties

Surfaceplot Properties

• Figure Windows

• Axes Operations

• Object Property Operations

• 3-D Visualization

• Surface and Mesh Plots

• Surface and Mesh Creation

mesh, meshc, meshz

• Domain Generation

• Color Operations

ColorSpec (Color Specification)

• View Control

• Camera Viewpoint

• Aspect Ratio and Axis Limits

xlim, ylim, zlim

• Object Manipulation

selectmoveresize

• Region of Interest

• Transparency

• Volume Visualization

interpstreamspeed

streamparticles

• GUI Development

• Predefined Dialog Boxes

• User Interface Deployment

setpixelposition

• User Interface Development

waitforbuttonpress

• User Interface Objects

• Objects from Callbacks

• GUI Utilities

getpixelposition

selectmoveresize

setpixelposition

• Program Execution

waitforbuttonpress

• External Interfaces

• Shared Libraries

libfunctionsview

• Java

• .NET

enableNETfromNetworkDrive

NET.addAssembly

NET.convertArray

NET.createArray

NET.createGeneric

NET.disableAutoRelease

NET.enableAutoRelease

NET.GenericClass

NET.GenericClass

NET.invokeGenericMethod

NET.NetException

NET.setStaticProperty

• Component Object Model and ActiveX

actxcontrollist

actxcontrolselect

actxGetRunningServer

GetWorkspaceData

MaximizeCommandWindow

MinimizeCommandWindow

PutWorkspaceData

unregisterallevents

unregisterevent

• Web Services

callSoapService

createClassFromWsdl

createSoapMessage

parseSoapResponse

• Serial Port Devices

delete (serial)

fclose (serial)

fprintf (serial)

fscanf (serial)

fwrite (serial)

isvalid (serial)

length (serial)

• Release Notes

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Graphics

Basic Plots and Graphs	Linear line plots, log and semilog plots
Plotting Tools	GUIs for interacting with plots
Annotating Plots	Functions for and properties of titles, axes labels, legends, mathematical symbols
Specialized Plotting	Bar graphs, histograms, pie charts, contour plots, function plotters
Bit-Mapped Images	Display image object, read and write graphics file, convert to movie frames
Printing	Printing and exporting figures to standard formats
Handle Graphics	Creating graphics objects, setting properties, finding handles

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Basic Plots and Graphs

box	Axes border
errorbar	Plot error bars along curve
hold	Retain current graph in figure
line	Create line object
LineSpec (Line Specification)	Line specification string syntax
loglog	Log-log scale plot
plot	2-D line plot
plot3	3-D line plot
plotyy	2-D line plots with y-axes on both left and right side
polar	Polar coordinate plot
semilogx	Semilogarithmic plots
semilogy	Semilogarithmic plots
subplot	Create axes in tiled positions

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Plotting Tools

figurepalette	Show or hide figure palette
pan	Pan view of graph interactively
plotbrowser	Show or hide figure plot browser
plotedit	Interactively edit and annotate plots
plottools	Show or hide plot tools
propertyeditor	Show or hide property editor
rotate3d	Rotate 3-D view using mouse
showplottool	Show or hide figure plot tool
zoom	Turn zooming on or off or magnify by factor

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Annotating Plots

annotation	Create annotation objects
clabel	Contour plot elevation labels
datacursormode	Enable, disable, and manage interactive data cursor mode
datetick	Date formatted tick labels
gtext	Mouse placement of text in 2-D view
legend	Graph legend for lines and patches
rectangle	Create 2-D rectangle object
texlabel	Produce TeX format from character string
title	Add title to current axes
xlabel, ylabel, zlabel	Label x-, y-, and z-axis

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Specialized Plotting

Area, Bar, and Pie Plots	1-D, 2-D, and 3-D graphs and charts
Contour Plots	Unfilled and filled contours in 2-D and 3-D
Direction and Velocity Plots	Comet, compass, feather and quiver plots
Discrete Data Plots	Stair, step, and stem plots
Function Plots	Easy-to-use plotting utilities for graphing functions
Histograms	Plots for showing distributions of data
Polygons and Surfaces	Functions to generate and plot surface patches in two or more dimensions
Scatter/Bubble Plots	Plots of point distributions
Animation	Functions to create and play movies of plots

Area, Bar, and Pie Plots

area	Filled area 2-D plot
bar, barh	Plot bar graph (vertical and horizontal)
bar3, bar3h	Plot 3-D bar chart
pareto	Pareto chart
pie	Pie chart
pie3	3-D pie chart

Contour Plots

contour	Contour plot of matrix
contour3	3-D contour plot
contourc	Low-level contour plot computation
contourf	Filled 2-D contour plot
ezcontour	Easy-to-use contour plotter
ezcontourf	Easy-to-use filled contour plotter

Direction and Velocity Plots

comet	2-D comet plot
comet3	3-D comet plot
compass	Plot arrows emanating from origin
feather	Plot velocity vectors
quiver	Quiver or velocity plot
quiver3	3-D quiver or velocity plot

Discrete Data Plots

stairs	Stairstep graph
stem	Plot discrete sequence data
stem3	Plot 3-D discrete sequence data

Function Plots

ezcontour	Easy-to-use contour plotter
ezcontourf	Easy-to-use filled contour plotter
ezmesh	Easy-to-use 3-D mesh plotter
ezmeshc	Easy-to-use combination mesh/contour plotter
ezplot	Easy-to-use function plotter
ezplot3	Easy-to-use 3-D parametric curve plotter
ezpolar	Easy-to-use polar coordinate plotter
ezsurf	Easy-to-use 3-D colored surface plotter
ezsurfc	Easy-to-use combination surface/contour plotter
fplot	Plot function between specified limits

Histograms

hist	Histogram plot
histc	Histogram count
rose	Angle histogram plot

Polygons and Surfaces

cylinder	Generate cylinder
delaunay	Delaunay triangulation
delaunay3	3-D Delaunay tessellation
delaunayn	N-D Delaunay tessellation
dsearch	Search Delaunay triangulation for nearest point
ellipsoid	Generate ellipsoid
fill	Filled 2-D polygons
fill3	Filled 3-D polygons
inpolygon	Points inside polygonal region
pcolor	Pseudocolor (checkerboard) plot
polyarea	Area of polygon
rectint	Rectangle intersection area
ribbon	Ribbon plot
slice	Volumetric slice plot
sphere	Generate sphere
waterfall	Waterfall plot

Scatter/Bubble Plots

plotmatrix	Scatter plot matrix
scatter	Scatter plot
scatter3	3-D scatter plot

Animation

frame2im	Return image data associated with movie frame
getframe	Capture movie frame
im2frame	Convert image to movie frame
movie	Play recorded movie frames
noanimate	Change `EraseMode` of all objects to `normal`

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Bit-Mapped Images

frame2im	Return image data associated with movie frame
im2frame	Convert image to movie frame
im2java	Convert image to Java image
image	Display image object
imagesc	Scale data and display image object
imapprox	Approximate indexed image by reducing number of colors
imfinfo	Information about graphics file
imformats	Manage image file format registry
imread	Read image from graphics file
imwrite	Write image to graphics file
ind2rgb	Convert indexed image to RGB image
rgb2ind	Convert RGB image to indexed image

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Printing

hgexport	Export figure
orient	Hardcopy paper orientation
print, printopt	Print figure or save to file and configure printer defaults
printdlg	Print dialog box
printpreview	Preview figure to print
saveas	Save figure or Simulink block diagram using specified format

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Handle Graphics

Graphics Object Identification	Find and manipulate graphics objects via their handles
Object Creation	Create core graphics objects
Annotation Objects	Property descriptions for annotation objects
Plot Objects	Property descriptions for plot objects
Figure Windows	Control and save figures
Axes Operations	Operate on axes objects
Object Property Operations	Query, set, and link object properties

Graphics Object Identification

allchild	Find all children of specified objects
ancestor	Ancestor of graphics object
copyobj	Copy graphics objects and their descendants
delete	Remove files or graphics objects
findall	Find all graphics objects
findfigs	Find visible offscreen figures
findobj	Locate graphics objects with specific properties
gca	Current axes handle
gcbf	Handle of figure containing object whose callback is executing
gcbo	Handle of object whose callback is executing
gco	Handle of current object
get	Query Handle Graphics object properties
ishandle	Test for valid graphics object handle
propedit	Open Property Editor
set	Set Handle Graphics object properties

Object Creation

axes	Create axes graphics object
figure	Create figure graphics object
hggroup	Create hggroup object
hgtransform	Create hgtransform graphics object
image	Display image object
light	Create light object
line	Create line object
patch	Create one or more filled polygons
rectangle	Create 2-D rectangle object
root object	Root
surface	Create surface object
text	Create text object in current axes
uicontextmenu	Create context menu

Annotation Objects

Annotation Arrow Properties	Define annotation arrow properties
Annotation Doublearrow Properties	Define annotation doublearrow properties
Annotation Ellipse Properties	Define annotation ellipse properties
Annotation Line Properties	Define annotation line properties
Annotation Rectangle Properties	Define annotation rectangle properties
Annotation Textarrow Properties	Define annotation textarrow properties
Annotation Textbox Properties	Define annotation textbox properties

Plot Objects

Areaseries Properties	Define areaseries properties
Barseries Properties	Define barseries properties
Contourgroup Properties	Define contourgroup properties
Errorbarseries Properties	Define errorbarseries properties
Lineseries Properties	Define lineseries properties
Quivergroup Properties	Define quivergroup properties
Scattergroup Properties	Define scattergroup properties
Stairseries Properties	Define stairseries properties
Stemseries Properties	Define stemseries properties
Surfaceplot Properties	Define surfaceplot properties

Figure Windows

clf	Clear current figure window
close	Remove specified figure
closereq	Default figure close request function
drawnow	Flush event queue and update figure window
gcf	Current figure handle
hgload	Load Handle Graphics object hierarchy from file
hgsave	Save Handle Graphics object hierarchy to file
newplot	Determine where to draw graphics objects
opengl	Control OpenGL rendering
refresh	Redraw current figure
saveas	Save figure or Simulink block diagram using specified format
shg	Show most recent graph window

Axes Operations

axis	Axis scaling and appearance
box	Axes border
cla	Clear current axes
gca	Current axes handle
grid	Grid lines for 2-D and 3-D plots
ishold	Current hold state
makehgtform	Create 4-by-4 transform matrix

Object Property Operations

get	Query Handle Graphics object properties
linkaxes	Synchronize limits of specified 2-D axes
linkprop	Keep same value for corresponding properties
refreshdata	Refresh data in graph when data source is specified
set	Set Handle Graphics object properties
waitfor	Block execution and wait for event or condition

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