I have temperature data that I would like to plot in i surface plot. I was thinking to put the data together in a matrix where the x-axis is time, the y-axis is a postion and the z-axis would be the data at that x-y-position (i.e. height, or in this case temperature). Is this possible using ilnumerics?
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I am trying to subtract the two corresponding values for each of the scatter plots to get a residual. Each point on the scatter plot below has a corresponding point in the plot above, but simply with a different value. For example, NE at the very left has a value of 0.5 in the top scatter plot and I'd like to subtract from it the value in the bottom plot which is 1. I have been trouble doing this. I couldn't get a level of detail calculation to work, because that aggregates everything, and I simply can't make a table calculation of avg(average scores) - predicted score. The predicted score is really just a trend line fitted on to the top scatter plot. Any help is appreciated.
I need to plot a 3D figure with each data point colored with the value of a 4th variable using a colormap. Lets say I have 4 variables X,Y,Z and W where W = f(X,Y,Z). I want a 3D plot with X, Y, and Z as the three axis. The statement scatter3(X,Y,Z,'filled','b') gives me a scatter plot in 3D but I want to incorporate the value of Z in the graph by representing the points as an extra parameter (either with different areas :bigger circles for data points with high value of Z and small circles for data points with low value of Z or by plotting the data points with different colors using a colormap). However, I am a novice in MATLAB and dont really know how to proceed. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
So just use z for the size vector (4th input) as well as the color vector (5th input):
z = 10*(1:pi/50:10*pi);
y = z.*sin(z/10);
x = z.*cos(z/10);
figure(1)
scatter3(x,y,z,z,z)
view(45,10)
colorbar
The size vector needs to be greater 0, so you may need to adjust your z accordingly.
You are already nearly there... simply use
scatter3(X,Y,Z,s,W);
where s is the point size (scalar, e.g. 3) and W is a vector with your W values.
You might also want to issue an
set(gcf, 'Renderer','OpenGL');
where gcf gets your current figure you are plotting in to significantly increase responsiveness when scattering a lot of data.
I want to visualize 4 vectors of scattered data with a surface plot. 3 vectors should be the coordinates. In addition the 4th vector should represent a surface color.
My first approach was to plot this data (xk,yk,zk,ck) using
scatHand = scatter3(xk,yk,zk,'*');
set(scatHand, 'CData', ck);
caxis([min(ck), max(ck)])
As a result I get scattered points of different color. As these points lie on the surface of a hemisphere it ist possible to get colored faces instead of just points. I replace the scattered points by a surface using griddata to first build an approximation
xk2=sort(unique(xk));
yk2=sort(unique(yk));
[xxk, yyk]=meshgrid(xk2, yk2);
zzk=griddata(xk,yk,zk,xxk,yyk,'cubic');
cck=griddata(xk,yk,clr,xxk,yyk,'cubic');
surf(xxk,yyk,zzk,cck);
shading flat;
This is already nearly what I want except that the bottom of the hemisphere is ragged. Of course if I increase the interpolation point numbers it gets better but than the handling of the plot gets also slow. So I wonder if there is an easy way to force the interpolation function to do a clear break. In addition it seems that the ragged border is because the value of zzk gets 'NaN' outside the circle the hemisphere shares with the z=0-plane.
The red points at the top are the first several entries of the original scattered data.
You can set the ZLim option to slice the plotted values within a certain range.
set(gca, 'Zlim', [min_value max_value])
I am looking for help for my particular problem.
I have a contour plot created from XYZ data. This plot contains 2 broad peaks with one more intense than the other.
When the most intense peak is aligned with the Y axis, I can perform a fitting of every YZ curve at each X values. I usually do a gaussian fit to plot the peak center on the same graph.
In some cases I need to perform the same fitting but no along the Y axis direction (in this case I just plot YZ scan at every different X values) but along another arbitrary direction.
For the moment the only way I found is the following:
-plot the contour plot and find for the position of the most intense peak
-if the position is not aligned with the Y axis, then rotate all the datas and plot again the contour
-perform the YZ gaussian fit for every X value
- Rotate the resulting XY position to go back to the original plot
-plot the XY position as a line on the original contour plot
this is quite long and requires a lot of memory. i would like ot know if there is a more elegant/faster way.
Thanks for your help
David
I take it you want to extract data from the (x,y,z) data along some arbitrary line in order to make a fit. A contour plot will show only part of the data, the full z(x,y) data can be shown with imagesc etc. Say you want the data along line defined by two points (x1,y1) -> (x2,y2). According to the eq of the line, the line y=a*x+b the slope a is (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) and b=y1-a*x1. For example, I'll select (x,y) coordinates in the following contour:
Create data and end points:
m=peaks(100);
x1=11 ; x2=97;
y1=66; y2=40;
Thus the line parameters are:
a=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1);
b=y1-a*x1;
and the line is:
x=x1:x2;
y=round(a*x+b);
select the proper (x,y) elements using linear indexing:
ind=sub2ind(size(m),y,x)
plot:
subplot(2,1,1)
contour(m,10); hold on
line([x1 x2],[y1 y2],'Color',[1 0 0]);
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(m(ind))
You can now use vec=m(ind) to fit your function.
What exactly Scatter Plot in Core Plot?
In my application,I am plotting values & join them except null values.If the null value is there in between then the plots are not joined.Is it the right way to plot values in Scatter plot?
Yes, that is the way scatter plot works in coreplot. Scatter plot is represented by joining the co-ordinate points using a line. If some data is missing, it will be represented by a broken link in scatter plot.
Alternatively you can try to represent a null value using zero value for that corresponding axis value and it can be represented as a sudden dip in the graph at that portion, but that again depends on your specific requirement.