Plotting help, my graph turns very clunky
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I'm trying to recreate the image attached of a elliptical spiral staircase but it's not working out too well. Please help!

function z = my_staircase(a,b,h,n)
tv = 0:2*pi*n;
for k1 = 1:length(tv)
    t = tv(k1);
    r=((a*b)*exp(-.04*t))/sqrt((b*cos(t)^2)+ (a*sin(t))^2);
    x(k1)=r*cos(t);
    y(k1)=r*sin(t);
    z(k1)=(h*t)/(2*pi*n);
end
hold on
 plot3(x,y,z)
    xlabel('x(m)'); ylabel('y(m)');zlabel('z(m)');
    grid on
    view([-30  30])
end
The graph I got was for my_staircase(20,10,100,7) :

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  Mischa Kim
    
      
 on 27 Apr 2015
        
      Edited: Mischa Kim
    
      
 on 27 Apr 2015
  
      Japoe25, just add more data points. E.g.,
 tv = 0:0.1:2*pi*n;  % 0.1 is the spacing between data points
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