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Comet Plot

animating lines with comet
comet(a) displays an animated comet plot of the vector a.
comet(a, b) displays an animated comet plot of vector b vs. a.
comet(a, b, p) uses a comet of length p*length(b).  Default is p = 0.10.

Example:



If you want to plot the following function:
comet plot 1, for the range comet plot 2,  you can write this script in Matlab:

% Clears variables, command window, and closes all figures
clc; clear; close all

% Generates 300 linearly spaced points from 0 to 8*pi
x = linspace(0, 8*pi, 300);

% Creates the formula to be plotted
% (it's a multiplication between vector 'x' and vector 'cos(x)')
y = x .* cos(x);

% Plot it!
comet(x, y, .6)



An the result is...

comet plot

It is much better to see it on your own screen, because it moves like a ribbon!

You can experiment with different p values to see the length of the comet changing...

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Discrete plots: stems

Another way of 2D simple animation

3D animation

 

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