MATLAB: plotting multiple columns of a matrix - matlab

Inside a MATLAB function I have built a matrix A, whose dimensions M and N are set as parameters of the function. I would like to plot all the columns of this matrix, given a vector of indices B with length M. Hence, I use these lines:
figure
plot(B,A)
I specified figure as the MATLAB function returns more different plots.
My problem is that the program plots just two columns of the matrix with different colours (blue and violet). Where is my mistake?
Thank you for your attention.

go for
plot(repmat(B,1,N),A);
or
plot(repmat(B,N,1),A);
(depending on your rows/columns). You need to have same size matrices in plot.
Moreover, if B are just consecutive indexes, you may want to consider Plot(A) (or Plot(A')).

I noticed that there was an error which caused the overlap of the different curves, so the way which I used to plot the colums of a matrix is valid. However, the method proposed by Acorbe is a possibility, too.

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i have 100*100 matrix, how can i make plot3 graph?

I have a 100 x 100 matrix and i have to use plot3 in MATLAB environment to graph this data. I tried plot3(matrix name) but I faced this error "not enough input arguments". I think plot3 needs 3 input arguments, but I only have this matrix of data. could anyone help me to solve this problem? Is there any alternative for plot3 when we don't have enough arguments?
I need a graph like this:
I think you want to plot the values in a figure as a sort of surface element. What you can do then is:
[X,Y] = size(matrix);
figure;
surface(1:X,1:Y,matrix);
What this does is that it creates a vector for both X and Y indices, as possible in surface. The X and Y indices are obtained by setting them as integers from 1:size, so basically you assign the location of each matrix element to an index.
Note that you can strictly speaking use surface(matrix) as well, but the former approach allows you to use custom indexing, as long as the lengths of the vectors X and Y are the same as the size of your matrix.
For the waterfall use:
figure;
waterfall(matrix);
Sample code:
A=rand(100);
figure;
waterfall(1:100,1:100,A);
Gives:
where you can play around with the name-value pairs, see the documentation on that.
I think what you need is mesh or surf instead of plot3.
plot3 draws a line in 3d-space, so it will need three vectors of the same length (one for each dimension).
When you have a matrix, one reasonable way of displaying it is as a surface in 3d space, which is done by the functions mesh and surf.
Try it out! I hope i helps!

Do 1-D convolution along each row of a matrix

Did a quick search and couldn't find much about this. Say I have a 2D matrix and a 1D 'response function'. I want to convolve each row of the 2D matrix with the response function. I can do this by:
for i=1:numrows
answer(:,i) = conv(2dmatrix(:,i),response_function,'same');
end
but it's super slow! Any tips to accelerate this?
Thanks
This code reproduces your results on randomly generated matrices:
conv2(response_function,1,2dmatrix,'same')
conv2 allows you to convolute along rows and columns separately, so do nothing to the rows, 1, and convolve the columns by response_function.
To convolve along each row, swap the order of the first two function arguments.
conv2 has somewhat weird syntax, I would prefer using convn for generalized n dimensional convolution. When one of the inputs is just a row vector then convolution in every other dimension is essentially a convolution with [1] so it doesn't change anything, only preforming convolution along each row. Similarly if your a matrix convoluted with a column vector then it would do convolution along each column.
answer = convn(2dmatrix, response_function);

Plotting 3 vectors in Matlab GUI axes handle

I am trying to plot 3 vectors onto matlab GUI in a serial object's callback.
I want to plot this on axes handle but the problem is it only plot last vector;
plot(handles.axes1,sensor1,'r');
plot(handles.axes1,sensor2,'b');
plot(handles.axes1,sensor3,'g');
I searched on internet and find that this issue can be solved with hold on and hold of feature so I tried this
plot(handles.axes1,sensor1,'r');
hold on ;
plot(handles.axes1,sensor2,'b');
plot(handles.axes1,sensor3,'g');
hold off;
but in this case a new figure is opened(dont know why) and again only the last plot is drawn.
I am stucked. If any one have idea of what would be the issue?
Thanks
I'm not sure why your first try using "hold" didn't work. Seems like it should have.
But in any case, you can get the desired behavior in a single command:
plot(handles.axes1,length(sensor1),sensor1,'r',...
length(sensor2),sensor2,'b',...
length(sensor3),sensor3,'g');
This specifies both an X = length(sensor_) and a Y = sensor_ to the plot command. When you only give plot a Y input, it assumes an X of length(Y). But you can't combine multiple traces in a single plot command by giving only the Y input for each, because it will try to treat the inputs as X,Y pairs.
As the vectors are the same length we can simply combine them as the columns of a matrix and then plot the matrix
plot(handles.axes1,[sensor1',sensor2',sensor3'])
However these will have the default colour order. Without specifying x values setting colors within the plot command is tricky. However (luckily) the default order starts:
blue,green,red...
so swapping the column order will plot the lines with the colours requested
plot(handles.axes1,[sensor2',sensor3',sensor1'])
(this assumes the vectors are rows, if they are columns don't transpose them)

Matlab : Plot each line of a matrix as a function of its index

I would like to create a plot with several lines, each corresponding to a row at a given matrix.
To be more elaborate, I have got a matrix M where each row represents a value that is changing along the columns. I would like to plot this change as a function of the column index to each of the rows, so to plot (e.g) the first rowI should :
plot(M(1,:));
The thing is, I would like to plot all the rows. Of course I could iterate over them, hold and plot the current one:
(plot(M(i,:))
but I'm wondering if there's a simple command or a single-liner that would do it.
I have tried plotmatrix but without much success regarding the desirable results.
Thanks!
Have you tried plot(M')?
From the first paragraph of the documentation of plot:
plot(Y) plots the columns of Y versus the index of each value when Y is a real number.

Making a 3D plot of multiple column vectors

I have multiple vectors of varying lengths that I would like to plot next to each other in 3D space in Matlab.
As an example:
Say I have three vectors:
X is a 5x2 vector,
Y is a 10x2 vector and
Z is a 15x2 vector.
Each element of every vector has the format:
x value, y value
but the x values of the various vectors do not match.
I would like to plot these vectors in 3D space, next to each other. The reason why I don't want to plot them using "hold" is because most of the data have the same values, but I would like to see how many of the plots have the same value at a specific time.
I hope my questions makes sense. Please just ask if anyone is unsure.
I think you are looking for the function ribbon.
Documentation: http://www.mathworks.fr/help/techdoc/ref/ribbon.html
EDIT:
if your x's do not have the same length, you can combine it with interp1 as follow:
x1=0:0.1:1;
x2=0:0.02:1.5;
y1=x1.^2;
y2=sqrt(x2);
y2=interp1(x2,y2,x1);
ribbon(x1',[y1;y2]')