Making polar plots in dB with the most negative value in the center !
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Ole
on 9 Dec 2025 at 14:27
Commented: Star Strider
on 10 Dec 2025 at 10:59
How to obtain the function: "polar_db" ? (Matlab 2021a does not know it !).
Please advice,
Regards Ole
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Star Strider
on 9 Dec 2025 at 15:19
Alternatively, you can subtract the most negative dB value from the rest, then scale the radius grid lines --
Perhaps something like this --
a = 0:0.01:2*pi;
r = 1 + sin(a);
r = mag2db(abs(r));
[rmin,rmax] = bounds(r)
rs = r - rmin;
figure
polarplot(a, rs)
Ax = gca;
rtix = Ax.RTick;
rtixs = rescale(rtix, rmin, rmax);
Ax.RTickLabel = compose('%.1f dB',rtixs);
% get(Ax)
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Star Strider
on 10 Dec 2025 at 10:59
My pleasure!
If my Answer helped you solve your problem, please Accept it!
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dpb
on 9 Dec 2025 at 14:48
<It's a FEX submission>, not Mathworks-supplied in MATLAB
There's second there with the title "Polar_db" as well although I didn't go compare to see what might be the difference between the two...
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