I want to create a polarplot() on which I want to plot custom bitmaps/images as marker.
Also, I want to animate the polarplot() by updating these marker's location in regular time intervals(500milliseconds).
Please see the below attached image to get an idea what I want.
SamplePlotExample.jpg
I have made a similar application using 'polar()' and 'imagesc()'.
But I feel 'polarplot()' is better and recommended by Matlab.
Also there are so many customization options available with polarplot().
But I am unable to use imagesc() with polarplot because of some polar coordinate-to-cartersian coordinate conversion problem.
Pleas give solution.
Is there any other better methods to follow?
I want to create two tabs within one GUI. One can show the plot of sine function, the other shows cone function. I can handle these two functions. but i do not know how to create two tabs. Thanks a lot!
If by tabs you mean 'plotting area' then you likely need to create 2 axes objects and display each plot in its own axes. In GUIDE it's very easy...more info here.
Let's say you have axes1 and axes2, you can do this:
axes(axes1) % Make axes1 the current axes.
plot(sin(...))
axes(axes2) % Make axes2 the current axes
plot(...)
and that's it. Hope this is what you mean! If not sorry I misunderstood the question.
EDIT
I thought about it and I'm probably wrong about what I thought a tab is. Matlab does not allow to do it directly, although it might be possible with the GUI Layout Toolbox. Here is a submission from the FIle Exchange which could be interesting to you: link here!. Sorry abut the confusion.
uitab() can be used for creating tabs. If you want to create tabs using guide it's currently not natively supported but possible with a work around I described here.
I am currently using the fill command in MATLAB to create a graph of boxes that were created using the 'fill' command (the actual code is based off this StackOverflow Question.
My issue is that the boxes that I create do not have "corners." I am attaching a PNG that illustrates the issue. Note that you have to look a little carefully since the image was heavily rendered, though in this example my arrows also look weird since they don't have edges either)
I am wondering if anyone has an idea of what might be going wrong? The boxes appear this way immediately after I use the fill command, which has the following structure:
fill(X,Y,MyFaceColor,'FaceAlpha',0.5,'EdgeColor', MyEdgeColor,'LineStyle','','LineWidth',box_line_width,'EdgeAlpha',1)
The function fill appears to leave space for corner markers if they are not explicitly defined. Hence, calling fill with the marker property will solve your problem. However, since markers and linewidths seem to work on different scales, you will have to play around with the marker size to get smooth edges.
Example:
fill(X,Y,'r','FaceAlpha',0.5,'EdgeColor', 'k',...
'LineWidth', 5,'EdgeAlpha',1 , 'marker', '.', 'markersize', 15)
I have 42 variables and I have calculated the correlation matrix for them in Matlab. Now I would like to visualize it with a schemaball. Does anyone have any suggestions / experiences how this could be done in Matlab? The following pictures will explain my point better:
In the pictures each parabola between variables would mean the strength of correlation between them. The thicker the line is, the more correlation. I prefer the style of picture 1 more than the style in picture 2 where I have used different colors to highlight the strength of correlation.
Kinda finished I guess.. code can be found here at github.
Documentation is included in the file.
The yellow/magenta color (for positive/negative correlation) is configurable, as well as the fontsize of the labels and the angles at which the labels are plotted, so you can get fancy if you want and not distribute them evenly along the perimeter/group some/...
If you want to actually print these graphs or use them outside matlab, I suggest using vector formats (eg eps). It's also annoying that the text resizes when you zoom in/out, but I don't know of any way to fix that without hacking the zoom function :/
schemaball % demo
schemaball(arrayfun(#num2str,1:10,'uni',false), rand(10).^8,11,[0.1587 0.8750],[0.8333 1],2*pi*sin(linspace(0,pi/2-pi/20,10)))
schemaball(arrayfun(#num2str,1:50,'uni',false), rand(50).^50,9)
I finished and submitted my version to the FEX: schemaball and will update the link asap.
There are a some differences with Gunther Struyf's contribution:
You can return the handles to the graphic object for full manual customization
Labels are oriented to allow maximum left-to-rigth readability
The figure stretches to fit labels in, leaving the axes unchanged
Syntax requires only correlations matrix (but allows optional inputs)
Optimized for performance.
Follow examples of demo, custom labels and creative customization.
Note: the first figure was exported with saveas(), all others with export_fig.
schemaball
x = rand(10).^3;
x(:,3) = 1.3*mean(x,2);
schemaball(x, {'Hi','how','is','your','day?', 'Do','you','like','schemaballs?','NO!!'})
h = schemaball;
set(h.l(~isnan(h.l)), 'LineWidth',1.2)
set(h.s, 'MarkerEdgeColor','red','LineWidth',2,'SizeData',100)
set(h.t, 'EdgeColor','white','LineWidth',1)
The default colormap:
To improve on screen rendering you can launch MATLAB with the experimental -hgVersion 2 switch which produces anti/aliased graphics by default now (source: HG2 update | Undocumented Matlab). However, if you try to save the figure, the file will have the usual old anti-aliased rendering, so here's a printscreen image of Gunther's schemaball:
Important update:
You can do this in Matlab now with the FileExchange submission:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/48576-circulargraph
There is an exmample by Matlab in here:
http://uk.mathworks.com/examples/matlab/3859-circular-graph-examples
Which gives this kind of beautiful plots:
Coincidentally, Cleve Moler (MathWorks Chief Mathematician) showed an example of just this sort of plot on his most recent blog post (not nearly as beautiful as the ones in your example, and the connecting lines are straight rather than parabolic, but it looks functional). Unfortunately he didn't include the code directly, but if you leave him a comment on the post he's usually very willing to share things.
What might be even nicer for you is that he also applies (and this time includes) code to permute the rows/columns of the array in order to maximize the spatial proximity of highly connected nodes, rather than randomly ordering them around the circumference. You end up with a 'crescent'-shaped envelope of connecting lines, with the thick bit of the crescent representing the most highly connected nodes.
Unfortunately however, I suspect that if you need to enhance his code to get the very narrow, high-resolution lines in your example plots, then MATLAB's currently non-anti-aliased graphics aren't quite up to it yet.
I've recently been experimenting with MATLAB data and the D3 visualization library for similar graphs - there are several related types of circular visualizations you may be interested in and many of them are interactive. Another helpful, well-baked, and freely available option is Circos which is probably responsible for most of the prettier versions of these graphs you've seen in popular press.
I'm making an iPhone app that uses Core Plot at one point in the application. I'm drawing a graph using a CPTScatterPlot and along the line I have CPTPlotSymbol plot symbols.
the graph is looking really good after some customizing but what I want to do is give the user a bit better visual representation of where exactly on the graph the current material is referring to.
I would like to "highlight" individual plot symbols along my line. I have the location on the xAxis of the point I want to manipulate. I have not been able to find any example of this or even a suggestion that it's possible, it seems to be possible for pie charts and bar plots though.
If it is not possible to change or manipulate the actual plot symbol at a point I'm quite happy to simply draw something over the symbol. If so, is there a way to get the x,y coordinates (in relation to the screen) of each plot symbol? Or will I have to calculate that from my data? My data varies a_lot so I'm simply auto resizing the plot area at the moment.
thanks!
You can implement the -symbolForScatterPlot:recordIndex: datasource method to customize the plot symbol at each point. Return nil if you don't want a symbol drawn at the given index. The Mac version of CPTTestApp (in the Core Plot examples folder) has a plot symbol demo that shows how to use this method.