Graphics and Visualization

Graphics & Visualization M-files   
Graphics and visualization mfiles from the MATLAB Central File Exchange.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadCategory.do?objectType=category&objectId=105
Submitted Apr 18, 2000
Updated May 05, 2004
MathWorks MATLAB Gallery     
A collection of MATLAB generated images and associated M-files from the MATLAB Central File Exchange.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadCategory.do?objectType=category&objectId=13
Submitted Jul 03, 1999
Updated Jan 29, 2008 by Matthew Simoneau
Animation in MATLAB   
One of the uses for Matlab is to make a series of calculations and plots. For example, in the concurrent/countercurrent flow model, we wanted to calculate the amount of material after each time iteration and plot this on the screen. To do this, we had the program difflow.m.

http://physics.gac.edu/~huber/envision/matgui/animate.htm
Submitted Jul 03, 1999
Updated May 05, 2004
Creating a GUI in MATLAB 5   
One of the major comments that we hear about MATLAB is "I don't know how I can use it in my classroom. It is too hard for my students to use." This may be a correct comment - we don't necessarily want the students to construct a model from scratch in MATLAB, but would want them to use a previously prepared model. We can do this using Input and disp statements in a M-file which is run from the MATLAB window. A much better way is to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) where the student just "fills in the blanks" and all of the MATLAB commands are completely hidden from the student. Creating GUI's in MATLAB Version 5 is significantly easier than in previous versions of the program. In particular, the guide program allows one to easily place controls onto a model and set their properties.

http://physics.gac.edu/~huber/envision/matgui/matgui.htm
Submitted Jul 03, 1999
Updated May 05, 2004
Export MATLAB to Word, FrameMaker, PowerPoint, the web & more   
Using The Graphics Connection, you can convert MatLab output into scalable vector formats such as MIF for FrameMaker, WMF for Word and PowerPoint as well as web formats SVG and CGM. TGC also generates bitmap and ascii formats. Files to be converted must be saved in PostScript or EPS before using TGC. Dynamic batch process and developer kits available.

http://www.square1.nl/index.htm
Submitted Mar 18, 2001
Updated May 05, 2004
3-d Plotting Commands   
In order to plot in three dimensions one need to specify a grid of points in the x-y domain; this is much like specifing the ordered pairs in the plane where points will be plotted. The Matlab command meshgrid achieves this as follows.

http://germain.umemat.maine.edu/faculty/bray/Matlab/3dplots.html
Submitted Jun 15, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 16, 2005
density.m   
2-D probability density plot.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/density.zip
Submitted Aug 05, 1999
3D graphs and other graphics capabilities   
3D Plotting, Colormaps & Visibility, and Adding Text,

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/abbe/matlab/3d.html
Submitted Jun 08, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 13, 2005
MathWorks Virtual Reality Toolbox     
The Virtual Reality Toolbox extends the capabilities of MATLAB� and Simulink� into the world of virtual reality graphics. Using the standard Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) technology, the toolbox allows you to create animated three-dimensional scenes that are driven from the MATLAB and Simulink environment.

http://www.mathworks.com/products/virtualreality/
Submitted Jul 03, 1999
MATLAB 3D point plotting utilities   
Utilities to help plot 3d points in MATLAB

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~petersd/241/matlab241.html
Submitted Jun 08, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 13, 2005
MATLAB Graphics Plugin   
The MATLAB Graphics Plugin performs communications with the MATLAB graphics windows. It provides mechanisms to map MATLAB graphics or graphic metafiles to the plugin window.

http://www.esr.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/VCLab/software/MatlabPlugin/MatlabGraphicsPlugin.html
Submitted Feb 23, 2005 by ruda iulian
Updated Feb 24, 2005
Colorbar for Filled Contour Plots   
Produces a colorbar for a filled contour plot with the appropriate colors and tick marks.

http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/epsonde/programming.html
Submitted Jul 02, 1999
Updated May 05, 2004
Easy Layout Managers for Handle Graphics   
The toolbox should be usefull to developers of MATLAB Handle Graphics GUI's. It makes writing complex resizeable GUI's easy by managing the resize behaviour of each component you add to the GUI with definable constraints.

http://xtargets.com/cms/Tutorials/Matlab-Programming/Advanced-Layout-Management-With-Handle-Graphics.html
Submitted Apr 19, 2005 by Brad Phelan
sticks.m   
Creates stick plot. STICKS(X,MAG,THETA) makes a stick plot in the current axis where X is the position along the x-axis where each stick starts, MAG is the magnitude and THETA is the compass direction (0 is in the direction of the y-axis).

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/sticks.zip
Submitted Aug 13, 1999
Eztools   
Eztools are a set of GUI controls to aid in annotating MATLAB figures. Separate portions of Eztools can be called directly from the command line, or the entire set of routines can be added to the current plot by typing 'eztools' from the command line (after the eztools directory is added to the current path).

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/eztools.zip
Submitted Aug 05, 1999
Updated May 05, 2004
DIVA   
DIVA is a utility for fast plotting and Figure Enhancing under Matlab.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/diva.zip
Submitted Jul 22, 1999
flash 3d animation - surface construction   
flash animation of some 3d surfaces plotted in Matlab It is actualy a mini tutoriel in french but the animations have their own language.

http://matlabcurve.googlepages.com/galeriedesurface
Submitted Dec 25, 2007 by Rahman Yussuf
Updated Dec 26, 2007
Matplotlib   
Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures using in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive GUI environments across platforms.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
Submitted Jun 07, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Print Shop for MATLAB - 2-control ApS   
Create PDF files directly from MATLAB. Include text, matrices, tables and graphics in your reports. Use formatting (bold, italic, headers, footers, chapters, sections etc.). Customisable page layout and support for page numbers, headers and footers.

http://www.2-control.com/software/matlab/printshop/index.html
Submitted Jan 02, 2002
Updated Mar 14, 2008
Floating Axis Plot   
The floatAxisX m-file enables you to plot parameters with different units on the same axes having the x-axis for the parameters "floating" below. FloatAxisY plots floating axes on the left-hand side of the plot. The number of parameters plotted is not limited.

http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/epsonde/programming.html
Submitted Sep 21, 2000
Updated May 05, 2004
Plotting operations and MATLAB graphics   
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION INTO MATLAB COMPUTING Lecture 1.5: Plotting operations and MATLAB graphics

http://dmpeli.math.mcmaster.ca/Matlab/Math1J03/LectureNotes/Lecture1_5.htm
Submitted Jun 08, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 13, 2005
degraph.m   
This program can be used to capture data from a scanned graph in MATLAB format ... results in vectors new_xin, new_yin.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/degraph.zip
Submitted Aug 05, 1999
Updated May 05, 2004
imcircle.m   
The file develops an "n by n" matrix containing a solid circle of ones of diameter "n" pixels, over a background of zero pixels. Pixel positions are calculated on a nearest-fit basis, using trigonometry. Such a circle can be an image, or part of an image, or an image mask.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/imcircle.zip
Submitted Aug 06, 1999
ffgrid.m   
Fast 'n' Furious data gridding.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/ffgrid.zip
Submitted Aug 05, 1999
fwaitbar.m   
Fast display of wait bar. H = FWAITBAR(X,'title') creates and displays a wait bar of fractional length X. The handle to the waitbar figure is returned in H. X should be between 0 and 1.

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/fwaitbar.zip
Submitted Aug 13, 1999
MCAT   
MCAT is a MATLAB based general purpose plotting package, that plots waveforms from columns of numbers.

http://ewre-www.cv.ic.ac.uk/software/toolkit.htm
Submitted Jul 16, 1999
Updated May 10, 2005
stardust.m   
When the command STARDUST is issued it creates a control panel with buttons and editable parameters. By changing these, quite a few pretty pictures can be created. Basically it is a (discontinuous) mapping of a finite 2-D domain onto itself with iterations continuing while the button "Run" is "on".

http://www.mathtools.net/files/net/stardust.zip
Submitted Jul 19, 1999
Gnuplot Homepage   
Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.

http://www.gnuplot.info/
Submitted Jun 02, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 03, 2005
Robust Multi-camera Calibration   
We describe the formulation and MATLAB implementation of a large-scale nonlinear optimzation procedure, to calibrate an array of 128 cameras.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~vaibhav/projects/calib-cs205/
Submitted Jun 07, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 14, 2005
PNM Toolbox   
A collection of programs for reading and writing PPM (portable pixelmap), PGM (portable graymap), PBM (portable bitmap) and XBM (X11 bitmap) image files. A few other image processing and conversion tools are also included.

http://home.online.no/~pjacklam/matlab/software/pnm/index.html
Submitted Jul 02, 1999
MATLAB 5 plots under Linux   
I'll be sharing a few tips on how to get the most out of your MATLAB plots using a bunch of Linux tools and utilities.

http://www.reimeika.ca/marco/matlab/coolplots.html
Submitted Jun 08, 2005 by MATLAB Central Admin
Updated Jun 13, 2005
Flickr photos tagged "matlab"   
This is a collection of all the photos submitted to Flickr.com that have been tagged "matlab".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/matlab/
Submitted Nov 14, 2005 by Ned Gulley
Updated Nov 15, 2005
Mplayer based video reader for Matlab on LInux   
This package provides a simple matlab interface with mplayer (an open source video player) to read frames from a video file on Linux. It hence supports most codecs handled by mplayer.

http://cs-people.bu.edu/tvashwin/mplayerMex/
Submitted May 23, 2006 by Ashwin Thangali
Updated May 24, 2006
MATLAB interface to Partiview   
Ndaona is a package of Matlab functions for automatically creating visualizations of certain types, such as time-varying textured 3d scatterplots and animated networks around the planet. It does so by creating Partiview files.

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/ndaona/
Submitted Sep 22, 2006 by Ned Gulley
Updated Sep 25, 2006
Spatial Analysis 3D   
Spatial Analysis 3D is a user-friendly, graphical user interface (GUI) that allows statistical and visual manipulations of real and simulated three-dimensional spatial point patterns. Examples of the types of analyses performed include those derived from the Delaunay tessellation associated with such spatial point patterns, and those associated with the correlation of such point patterns, including autocorrelation analysis and its derived density recovery profile, as well as the related K, F, and G-functions. The stimulus for the development of Spatial Analysis 3D has been the study of neuronal positioning within the central nervous system, but many other applications in science, engineering, statistics and mathematics should benefit from this suite of programs. Spatial Analysis 3D is the project of a collaborative research effort between Drs. Benjamin Reese, Mary Raven, and Dan Lofgreen at the Unversity of California at Santa Barbara and Dr. Stephen Eglen at the University of Cambridge. It has been supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health through the Neurotechnology Research, Development and Enhancement Program. It grew out of our efforts to quantify the regularity and simulate the patterning found in distributions of nerve cells across the retina, a structure in the central nervous system where uniformity in nerve cell spacing plays a critical role in retinal function.

http://www.nri.ucsb.edu/Labs/breese/
Submitted Oct 22, 2007 by Mary Raven
Updated Nov 09, 2007
3d Animation From Simulink   
3d Animation From Simulink Written in C++ using Ogre It is a little rough at this point but the source code is there if someone cares to improve it.

http://www.osengineer.com/scootasimulinktutorial.htm
Submitted Nov 13, 2007 by John Kollman
Updated Nov 20, 2007