With a ribbon plot, how to make the ribbons go along each matrix row instead of each column?
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In the ribbon command, the ribbons run along each column of the matrix. The Y vector must be of length = to the number of rows in the matrix. How do I get the ribbons to run along each row of the matrix? I tried many combinations of flipud, fliplr, transpose, etc., and either the axis is going in the wrong direction, or the labels are wrong.
Z=[0,1,2,2; 1,2,3,3; 2,3,4,4; 3,4,5,5]
Y=[0;1;2;3]
ribbon(Y,Z,0.1);
Here the ribbons run in the y direction, but I want them to run in the x direction. Nothing else, e.g., the axis numbering, should change.
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dpb
on 19 Jul 2024
Edited: dpb
on 19 Jul 2024
"...With the type of figure I'm generating, I would be happy with just lines in a 3D plot"
t = 0:pi/500:pi;
X(:,1) = sin(t).*cos(10*t);
X(:,2) = sin(t).*cos(12*t);
X(:,3) = sin(t).*cos(20*t);
Y(:,1) = sin(t).*sin(10*t);
Y(:,2) = sin(t).*sin(12*t);
Y(:,3) = sin(t).*sin(20*t);
Z = cos(t);
plot3(X,Y,Z,'color','k')
Using the example of multiple lines from the doc
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dpb
on 19 Jul 2024
Edited: dpb
on 19 Jul 2024
X=[1:4];
Y=[0:3];
Z=[0,1,2,2; 1,2,3,3; 2,3,4,4; 3,4,5,5].';
plot3(X,Y,Z,'k-')
grid on
xlabel('X'), ylabel('Y')
It would be interesting to see a real dataset...
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dpb
on 20 Jul 2024
Indeed, his is a neat trick...but for your expressed end purpose, plot3 is probably the better tool based on your sample plots above, and not the toy dataset for the Q?
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Voss
on 18 Jul 2024
Edited: Voss
on 18 Jul 2024
If you have some leeway on the x- and y-axis tick locations, you can use ribbon with the tranpose of Z and just alter the axis labels and orientation:
Z=[0,1,2,2; 1,2,3,3; 2,3,4,4; 3,4,5,5];
Y = (0:size(Z,2)-1).';
figure
ribbon(Y,Z.',0.1);
xlabel('y')
ylabel('x')
set(gca(),'XDir','reverse')
view([52.5,30])
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dpb
on 19 Jul 2024
Agreed that it is clever with existing ribbon function -- I started down that path but beat me here (although this response wasn't yet up). The y.' is obvious; I wasn't sure @Jeff Owen would think relabeling the axes was kosher or not...
Still, it seems a weakness in the supplied function that it doesn't have the ability to specify which axes orientation against which to draw the ribbons.
Voss
on 19 Jul 2024
"it seems a weakness in the supplied function that it doesn't have the ability to specify which axes orientation against which to draw the ribbons"
I agree.
Voss
on 18 Jul 2024
Z=[0,1,2,2; 1,2,3,3; 2,3,4,4; 3,4,5,5];
[m,n] = size(Z);
Y = (0:m-1).';
X = (0:n-1).';
Original ribbon plot, for reference:
figure
ribbon(Y,Z,0.1);
xlabel('x')
ylabel('y')
Create surface objects (what ribbon creates), but with the desired properties:
figure
w = 0.1;
for ii = 1:m
surface([X+1,X+1],(ii-1)*ones(n,1)+w/2*[-1 1],Z([ii ii],:).',ii*ones(n,2));
end
view(3)
grid on
xlabel('x')
ylabel('y')
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