Graphics > 2-D and 3-D Plots

136 functions in MATLAB › Graphics > 2-D and 3-D Plots.

Animation

`addpoints`	Appends points to an animated line.
`animatedline`	Creates a line that grows as points are added to it.
`clearpoints`	Removes all the points of an animated line.
`comet`	Animates a 2-D curve with a moving head and a trailing tail.
`comet3`	Animates a 3-D curve with a moving head and a trailing tail.
`drawnow`	Updates the figures and processes pending events right away.
`frame2im`	Converts a movie frame into image data and a colormap.
`getframe`	Captures the current axes or figure as a movie frame.
`getpoints`	Returns the coordinates of the points stored in an animated line.
`im2frame`	Converts an image into a movie frame structure.
`movie`	Plays a sequence of movie frames in a figure.

Discrete Data Plots

`bar`	Draws a bar chart.
`bar3`	Draws a 3-D bar chart.
`bar3h`	Draws a 3-D bar chart with horizontal bars.
`barh`	Draws a horizontal bar chart.
`pareto`	Pareto chart: bars sorted in descending order with a line of the cumulative percentage.
`stem`	Plots discrete data as vertical stems ending in markers.
`stem3`	Plots three-dimensional discrete data as stems from the xy-plane.

Data Distribution Plots

`binscatter`	Shows the density of scattered points by counting them in rectangular bins.
`boxchart`	Draws box plots that summarize the distribution of data.
`bubblechart`	Draws a scatter plot whose markers vary in size and color.
`bubblechart3`	Draws a 3-D scatter plot whose markers vary in size and color.
`bubblecloud`	Draws a packed cloud of circles whose areas are proportional to the data values.
`bubblelegend`	Adds a legend that explains the bubble sizes of a bubble chart.
`bubblelim`	Sets the range of data values that the bubble sizes cover.
`bubblesize`	Sets the smallest and largest bubble size, in points.
`donutchart`	Draws a donut chart, a pie chart with a hole in the middle.
`fewerbins`	Reduces the number of bins of an existing histogram object.
`heatmap`	Heatmap chart that shows a matrix, or two table variables, as colored cells.
`hist`	Counts data into equally spaced bins and draws a histogram, or returns the counts and centers.
`histc`	Counts how many values fall in each interval defined by a vector of bin edges.
`histogram`	Plots a histogram of the data and returns an object with the bins and counts.
`histogram2`	Bivariate histogram that counts pairs of values in a grid of bins and draws it as 3-D bars.
`morebins`	Increases the number of bins of an existing histogram object.
`parallelplot`	Parallel coordinates plot, one line per observation across several variables.
`pie`	Pie chart of the values in a vector, with percentage labels.
`pie3`	Three-dimensional pie chart of the values in a vector.
`piechart`	Pie chart object with names, labels and a title, from a vector or a table.
`plotmatrix`	Matrix of scatter plots of the columns of a data matrix against each other.
`rose`	Angle histogram drawn on polar axes as a rose diagram.
`scatter`	Scatter plot: markers at given positions, with optional size and color for each point.
`scatter3`	3-D scatter plot: markers at given 3-D positions, with optional size and color.
`scatterhistogram`	Scatter plot with histograms of each variable along its edges.
`sortx`	Sorts the columns of a heatmap by the values in one of its rows.
`sorty`	Sorts the rows of a heatmap by the values in one of its columns.
`swarmchart`	Draws a scatter plot whose points are spread sideways to avoid overlap.
`swarmchart3`	Draws a 3-D scatter plot whose points are spread sideways to avoid overlap.
`wordcloud`	Draws words sized by their frequency or by a weight.

Contour Plots

`clabel`	Adds value labels to the lines of a contour plot.
`contour`	Draws contour lines, the curves along which a function of two variables is constant.
`contour3`	Draws contour lines at their own height in a 3-D view.
`contourc`	Computes contour line coordinates without drawing them.
`contourf`	Draws filled contour plots.
`contourslice`	Draws contour lines on slice planes of 3-D volume data.
`ezcontour`	Contour plot of a function of two variables given as a handle or expression, without building a grid.
`ezcontourf`	Filled contour plot of a function of two variables given as a handle or expression.
`fcontour`	Contour plot of a function of two variables, given as a handle.

Polar Plots

`compass`	Draws vectors as arrows that start at the origin of a polar-style plot.
`ezpolar`	Plots a function given in polar form, radius as a function of angle.
`polar`	Plots a curve in polar coordinates from angles and radii.
`polaraxes`	Creates polar axes in the current figure and returns them.
`polarbubblechart`	Bubble chart in polar coordinates, with the bubble area given by a third variable.
`polarhistogram`	Histogram of angles drawn on polar axes.
`polarplot`	Plots lines on polar axes from angles and radii.
`polarscatter`	Scatter plot of points given in polar coordinates.
`rlim`	Sets or queries the radial limits of polar axes.
`rtickangle`	Sets or queries the rotation of the radial tick labels of polar axes.
`rtickformat`	Sets or queries the number format of the radial tick labels of polar axes.
`rticklabels`	Sets or queries the text of the radial tick labels of polar axes.
`rticks`	Sets or queries the positions of the radial ticks of polar axes.
`thetalim`	Gets or sets the angular limits of a polar axes.
`thetatickformat`	Gets or sets the format of the angular tick labels of a polar axes.
`thetaticklabels`	Gets or sets the text of the angular tick labels of a polar axes.
`thetaticks`	Gets or sets the angular tick positions of a polar axes.

Surfaces, Volumes, and Polygons

`coneplot`	Draws 3-D vectors of a vector field as cones.
`curl`	Curl and angular velocity of a vector field.
`cylinder`	Generates the coordinates of a surface of revolution, by default a cylinder.
`divergence`	Divergence of a vector field.
`ellipsoid`	Generates the coordinates of an ellipsoid.
`ezmesh`	Mesh surface plot of a function of two variables given as a handle or expression.
`ezmeshc`	Mesh surface plot with a contour plot underneath, from a function handle or expression.
`ezsurf`	Shaded surface plot of a function of two variables given as a handle or expression.
`ezsurfc`	Shaded surface plot with a contour plot underneath, from a function handle or expression.
`fill`	Draws filled 2-D polygons from vertex coordinates.
`fill3`	Draws filled polygons in 3-D space from vertex coordinates.
`fmesh`	Mesh surface plot of a function of two variables, given as a handle.
`fsurf`	Shaded surface plot of a function of two variables, given as a handle.
`hidden`	Turns hidden-line removal on or off for mesh plots.
`interpstreamspeed`	Resamples stream line vertices so that their spacing is proportional to the local speed of the vector field.
`isocaps`	Computes the faces that close the open ends of an isosurface where it meets the volume boundary.
`isocolors`	Computes the colors of isosurface vertices from a second volume of data.
`isonormals`	Computes surface normals of an isosurface from the gradient of the volume data.
`isosurface`	Extracts the surface where 3-D volume data equals a chosen value, as faces and vertices.
`mesh`	Draws a wireframe surface from a matrix of heights.
`meshc`	Draws a wireframe surface with a contour plot beneath it.
`meshz`	Draws a wireframe surface with a curtain around its edges.
`pcolor`	Pseudocolor plot: a flat grid of colored cells whose colors come from a matrix.
`peaks`	Sample function of two variables made of Gaussian peaks, used to try out surface plots.
`reducepatch`	Reduces the number of faces of a patch while trying to keep its shape.
`reducevolume`	Keeps every n-th sample of 3-D volume data along each direction.
`ribbon`	Draws the columns of a matrix as 3-D ribbons.
`shrinkfaces`	Shrinks each face of a patch toward its center, leaving gaps between faces.
`slice`	Draws slice planes through volumetric data.
`smooth3`	Smooths a 3-D data array with a box or Gaussian filter.
`sphere`	Generates the coordinates of a unit sphere, or draws it.
`stream2`	Computes 2-D streamline vertices of a vector field.
`stream3`	Computes 3-D streamline vertices of a vector field.
`streamparticles`	Draws particles moving along streamlines.
`streamribbon`	Draws 3-D stream ribbons that twist with the flow.
`streamtube`	Draws 3-D stream tubes whose width follows the divergence of the flow.
`subvolume`	Extracts a rectangular part of a volume data set.
`surf`	Draws a 3-D surface colored by height.
`surf2patch`	Converts surface data into patch faces and vertices.
`surface`	Low-level function that creates a surface object in the current axes.
`surfc`	Draws a 3-D surface with a contour plot underneath.
`surfl`	Draws a 3-D surface with lighting based on a light source.
`surfnorm`	Computes the normal vectors of a surface.
`volumebounds`	Returns the coordinate and color limits of volume data.
`waterfall`	Draws a mesh with lines in one direction only, like a waterfall of curves.

Line Plots

`errorbar`	Plots data with error bars.
`ezplot`	Plots a function of one variable, or an implicit or parametric curve, from a handle or expression.
`ezplot3`	Plots a 3-D parametric curve from three coordinate functions of a parameter.
`fimplicit`	Plots an implicit curve defined by f(x,y) = 0.
`fplot`	Plots a function of one variable, or a parametric curve, from a handle over an interval.
`fplot3`	Plots a 3-D parametric curve from three coordinate functions given as handles.
`loglog`	Plots data with logarithmic scales on both axes.
`plot3`	Plots lines and points in 3-D space.
`semilogx`	Plots a line with a base-10 logarithmic x-axis and a linear y-axis.
`semilogy`	Plots a line with a linear x-axis and a base-10 logarithmic y-axis.
`stairs`	Plots data as a stairstep graph, holding each value until the next point.

Vector Fields

`feather`	Plots vectors as arrows that start from equally spaced points on a horizontal line.
`quiver`	Plots a 2-D vector field as arrows.
`quiver3`	Plots a 3-D vector field as arrows.
`streamline`	Draws streamlines from precomputed vertices.
`streamslice`	Draws streamlines with direction arrows, evenly spaced across a vector field.

Geographic Plots

geobubble Bubble chart of data located by latitude and longitude on a map.