How to get data points from graph
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Syed Mohiuddin
on 1 Dec 2023
Commented: Syed Mohiuddin
on 7 Dec 2023
hi,
I have graph, i need to prepare a table of the data for x and y terms. How should i get the data points from the enclosed graph, please let me know.
Regards,
Syed Mohiuddin
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Dyuman Joshi
on 1 Dec 2023
It's not clear to me what you want to do.
What does 'terms' mean here?
Do you want to x and y coordinate values of the points used to plot that graph from the figure?
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Star Strider
on 1 Dec 2023
Getting information from .fig files has changed over the years. This approach works with the most recent releases.
Use the findobj function with the axes handle to return specifc ‘Line’ objects (since there may be more than one), then index into them, for example:
Lines = findobj(Ax, 'Type','line')
X{1} = Lines(1).XData;
Y{1} = Lines(1).YData;
If there are more than one, this can be done in a loop.
There is only one here, so just do this —
openfig('data points.fig');
% Ax = hf.CurrentAxes; % One Option
Ax = gca; % Another Option
Lines = findobj(Ax, 'Type','line'); % Return Handles To All 'Line' Objects
x = Lines.XData % Independent Variable
y = Lines.YData % Dependent Variable
figure
plot(x, y, '-r', 'LineWidth',2)
grid
xlabel('x')
ylabel('y')
title('Recovered Data')
axis('equal') % Optional
.
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Mathieu NOE
on 1 Dec 2023
Edited: Voss
on 1 Dec 2023
hello
the main code is very simple (use the attached function - credits to his creator !)
data = extract_data_from_figures('data points.fig');
VN = data.names; % variable names
data = data.Y;
x = data(:,1);
y = data(:,2);
figure(1)
plot(x,y);
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Mathieu NOE
on 4 Dec 2023
you probably did not download the function with the link I mentionned above
for your convenience I attach here to this post
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