Hello people of the interwebs!
My question is pretty simple. I want to change the horizontal and vertical axis scale? As you can see en the picture below I would like to have the value 1332 instead of ~ 3750 where you see a very clear blue line. How do I achieve this?
I appreciate all the help I can get!
Thanks in advance! :)
The values on the axis are based on your data, so the best option would really be to scale the data you plot, e.g. instead of plotting:
plot(x,y,'b.')
plot something like:
plot(x*1332/3750,y*1332/3750,'b.') % assuming same scaling factor on both axes
The other option, which is not so good in my opinion, is to change the axes ticks after plotting:
current_xticks = get(gca,'XTick');
new_xticks = current_xticks * 1332,3750;
set(gca,'XTick',new_xticks);
current_yticks = get(gca,'YTick');
new_yticks = current_yticks * 1332,3750; % assuming same scaling factor on both axes
set(gca,'YTick',new_yticks);
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I want the scale to be x10^10 not 10^9. How can I change this.
Consider this example:
x = linspace(0,5,1000);
y = 10^10*(exp(x).*sin(20*x));
plot(x,y)
grid on
grid minor
which produces the following plot with automatic limits:
by modifying the axes properties, you can define your own exponent:
ax = gca;
ax.YAxis.Exponent = 10;
obtaining this:
Please read the Matlab documentation for further explanation
There might be an axes property for this, I don’t know. But the simple solution is to plot y * 1e-10, and then add the “10^10” in the axis label, next to the units (“H2 Volume in Reservoir (10^10 m^3)”). I have always preferred it that way, and it is the more common way to present data.
Note that you can use LaTeX formatting in axis labels to properly show powers and so on.
I am a bit struggling with my polar plot. I am playing with strikes and dips, and for each pair of those, an "intensity". I'd like to plot this surface/contourf/whatever function on my polarplot. I cannot find the handle to do so. Dpp2 contains the intensity value for a given theta and rho/ strike and dip.
xTmp = (0:4:360);
yTmp = (0:22.5:90);
[strike,dip]= meshgrid(deg2rad(xTmp),deg2rad(yTmp));
dip2 = rad2deg(dip);
strike2 =rad2deg(strike);
figure('name', 'COLD');
polarplot([0 360],[0 90]);
s = surf(strike2, dip2, DPp2);
polarplot(s);
colormap
I've tried something like that, which obviously doesn't work.
cheers,
Flo
As far as I know there is no way of creating a surface plot directly in a polarplot.
One workaround is to manually create your polar axis plot. You can find an example here.
Another workaround would be to use
polarscatter to create a scatter plot (which looks simmilar in case you have a tight grid) Have a look at this.
Because you mentioned the handle: In case you want a handle to the axes have a look at polaraxes from here.
The polar scatter wasn't working, so I tried another function, which seems to work according to this page: https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/95796-how-do-i-create-a-contour-plot-in-polar-coordinates
I am note quite there yet, the contour map isn't "wrapped" around my polar plot, but so far it's compiling. If anyone has an idea on how to superimpose the contour map onto the polar plot ?
dip2 = rad2deg(dip);
strike2 =rad2deg(strike);
h = polar([0 360],[0 90]);
hold on;
contourf(strike2,dip2,DPp2);
% Hide the POLAR function data and leave annotations
set(h,'Visible','off')
% Turn off axes and set square aspect ratio
axis off
axis image
I need to plot two plots on same figure in MATLAB.
The maximum and minimum values in both the data samples have large variation, which I am unable to plot by taking same y-axis limits.
I do not wish to use two scales as explained in other Overlaying two axes in a Matlab plot but need to use a single y-axis and get the solution.
I tried the code:
x_axis_X = 1:length(S);
y_axis_Y = 1:length(N);
ylim([-1204200 -1841.6])
set(gcf,'color','w');
plot(x_axis_X, S,'o-', y_axis_Y, N, 'x-');
The result is as shown in the plot where one data sample is plotted without proper y-axis range.
The y limits for first data sample is -1204200 to -1841.6 and for the second it is -489429345.5 to -10408189.43.
How should be the ylim defined to fit both plots in the same figure?
I appreciate your inputs. Thank you.
In older versions of MATLAB use the function plotyy. In more recent versions of MATLAB use yyaxis. The following is the example from the documentation:
x = linspace(0,10);
y = sin(3*x);
yyaxis left
plot(x,y)
z = sin(3*x).*exp(0.5*x);
yyaxis right
plot(x,z)
ylim([-150 150])
I tried the idea of scaling one dataset so that it has a similar magnitude as the other data set. Here, I multiplied one dataset by 100 (or any suitable scaling parameter), and then it will be similar in size to the other data set. In order to clearly mention which data has been scaled in the graph I used the legend.
plot(x,data1,x,100*data2)
legend('data1','100*data2','location','southeast')
Thank you.
Scaling is not the best option, as you may need to work with the data later. Also does not work if for instance, you need a log scale.
Matlab has a few ways to deal it with. I particularly like to use a new axes in the figure, as i have done in the example below.
Just in case, you also found this answer in a simple google search!
Code:
a=1:10;
b=(10:-1:1)*100;
x=1:10;
hold on
plot(x,a,'b')
pax1=get(gca,'Position'); %get axis position
ax2 = axes('Position',pax1); %create a new axis
plot(ax2,x,b,'r') %plot new data
set(ax2, 'Yaxislocation','right',...
'color','none') % set it transparent and to the right
I need assistance making a nice contour plot. I have data from an underwater glider that dives and climbs repeatedly from the surface of the ocean to around 30 m, in this case.
I think my issue is with interpolating the data, and I am not sure how to proceed. Here is the contour plot of density I have generated this far.
The Contour plot of density was generated using this code
xlin = linspace(min(time),max(time),500);
ylin = linspace(min(depth),max(depth),500);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(xlin,ylin);
Z = griddata(time,depth,density,X,Y);
[C,h] = contour(X,Y,Z,[1022.0, 1022.5, 1023.0, 1023.5, 1024.0, 1024.5, 1025.0, 1025.5, 1026.0],'color',[0.5 0.5 0.5]);
v = [1022.0, 1022.5, 1023.0, 1023.5, 1024.0, 1024.5, 1025.0, 1025.5, 1026.0];
clabel(C,h,v,'fontsize',8);
set(gca,'ydir','reverse');
I want the plot to have smooth contour lines. Once I get the contour plot to look good I will overlay it on salinity and temperature scatter plots.
Please let me know how I can make a better looking contour plot.
Is it an issue with interpolation? Or the way I gridded the data?
Thanks very much! Please be specific and give code examples if you've played with the data.
Here is the time, depth, and density matlab data: https://www.dropbox.com/s/agi70zh7haggf07/data.mat?dl=0
The problem is that bunch of your interpolated data are missing. I mean that Z has a bunch of NaNs:
xlin = linspace(min(time),max(time),500);
ylin = linspace(min(depth),max(depth),500);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(xlin,ylin);
Z = griddata(time,depth,density,X,Y);
%surf(X,Y,Z) %also interesting
spy(isnan(Z));
Result:
Your input data are somehow ill-defined, and griddata gives up. Here's why:
>> sum(isnan(density))
ans =
3174
Fix the NaNs in your raw data, and you'll most probably fix the plot.
Update
I threw away your NaNs:
inds=~isnan(density);
time=time(inds);
depth=depth(inds);
density=density(inds);
to see how the result looks like. It turns out that your original code is already looking OK to me!
Original on the left, de-NaNed version on the right:
So... maybe your datetime transformation is off? Or your time limits, not showed in your original code?
I'm using polar plots (POLAR(THETA,RHO)) in MATLAB.
Is there an easy way to fix the range for the radial axis to say, 1.5?
I'm looking for something analogous to the xlim, ylim commands for cartesian axes. Haven't found anything in the docs yet.
this worked for me... i wanted the radius range to go to 30, so i first plotted this
polar(0,30,'-k')
hold on
and then plotted what i was actually interested in. this first plotted point is hidden behind the grid marks. just make sure to include
hold off
after your final plotting command.
Here's how I was able to do it.
The MATLAB polar plot (if you look at the Handle Graphics options available) does not have anything like xlim or ylim. However, I realized that the first thing plotted sets the range, so I was able to plot a function with radius range [-.5 .5] on a [-1 1] plot as follows:
theta = linspace(0,2*pi,100);
r = sin(2*theta) .* cos(2*theta);
r_max = 1;
h_fake = polar(theta,r_max*ones(size(theta)));
hold on;
h = polar(theta, r);
set(h_fake, 'Visible', 'Off');
That doesn't look very good and hopefully there's a better way to do it, but it works.
Simple solution is to make a fake graph and set its color to white.
fake=100;
polar(0,fake,'w');
hold on;
real=10;
polar(0,real,'w');
In case anyone else comes across this, here's the solution:
As Scottie T and gnovice pointed out, Matlab basically uses the polar function as an interface for standard plots, but with alot of formatting behind the scenes to make it look polar. Look at the values of the XLim and YLim properties of a polar plot and you'll notice that they are literally the x and y limits of your plot in Cartesian coordinates. So, to set a radius limit, use xlim and ylim, or axis, and be smart about the values you set:
rlim = 10;
axis([-1 1 -1 1]*rlim);
...that's all there is to it. Happy Matlabbing :)