Connecting line between different points obtained from a for-loop
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Hello, I have obtained a plot of set of points from a for-loop as shown above. I simply want to add a line connecting these points. The function plot(x,y,'-*') does not work since these points are from different iterations. Please can someone help. Thanks.
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Colian Giannini
on 12 Oct 2016
about this?
x=1:20;
y=zeros(length(x));
for i=1:length(x);
y(i)=x(i)+2;
end
plot(x,y,'-*')
AHN
on 13 Oct 2016
Answers (4)
Pritesh Shah
on 12 Oct 2016
0 votes
This will work for your case !!
All the best !!
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AHN
on 12 Oct 2016
Image Analyst
on 14 Oct 2016
These work:
% Plot all at once:
subplot(2, 1, 1);
x = 1 : 20;
y = zeros(1, length(x));
for i = 1 : length(x)
y(i) = x(i) + 2;
end
plot(x,y,'b-*')
grid on;
% Plot a point at a time:
subplot(2, 1, 2);
grid on;
ylim([0, 22]);
xlim([0, 20]);
hold on;
x = 1 : 20;
y = zeros(1, length(x));
for i = 1 : length(x)
y(i) = x(i) + 2;
plot(x(1:i),y(1:i),'b-*')
drawnow;
pause(0.3);
end
Of course you could also vectorize and do away with the for loops
x = 1 : 20;
y = x + 2;
plot(x,y,'b-*')
grid on;
4 Comments
AHN
on 28 Nov 2016
Image Analyst
on 28 Nov 2016
Can you at least give me some idea of what range of values z1 and z2 take on? Maybe just hard code 10 or 20 of the values from your program. Just print some out to the command window, copy, and paste into a line of code that will define z1 and z2.
AHN
on 29 Nov 2016
AHN
on 29 Nov 2016
SAKSHAM
on 12 Oct 2024
0 votes
clc;
clear all;
x1=input("Enter the value of x1= ");
y1=input("Enter the value of y1= ");
x2=input("Enter the value of x2= ");
y2=input("Enter the value of y2= ");
dx=x2-x1;
dy=y2-y1;
k=0;
p=2*dy-dx;
plot(x1,y1,'o');
hold on
while x1<x2
if p<0
x1=x1+1;
p=p+(2*dy);
else
x1=x1+1;
y1=y1+1;
p=p+ 2*(dy-dx);
end
plot(x1,y1,'o');
end
grid on
please let me know how to connect the points with a line in this code
1 Comment
DGM
on 12 Oct 2024
Yet another reason to not write scripts that rely on ephemeral manual user input.
Are the initial points all scalar? If so, what's the point of the loop?
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