1 Functions By Category

Graphics
2-D graphs, specialized plots (e.g., pie charts, histograms, and contour plots),
function plotters, and Handle Graphics functions.

Category Description

Basic Plots and Graphs Linear line plots, log and semilog plots

Annotating Plots Titles, axes labels, legends, mathematical

symbols

Specialized Plotting Bar graphs, histograms, pie charts, contour

plots, function plotters

Bit-Mapped Images Display image object, read and write graphics

file, convert to movie frames

Printing Printing and exporting figures to standard

formats

Handle Graphics Creating graphics objects, setting properties,

finding handles

Basic Plots and Graphs

box Axis box for 2-D and 3-D plots
errorbar Plot graph with error bars
hold Hold current graph
loglog Plot using log-log scales
polar Polar coordinate plot
plot Plot vectors or matrices.
plot3 Plot lines and points in 3-D space
plotyy Plot graphs with Y tick labels on the left and right
semilogx Semi-log scale plot
semilogy Semi-log scale plot
subplot Create axes in tiled positions

Annotating Plots
clabel Add contour labels to contour plot
datetick Date formatted tick labels

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gtext Place text on 2-D graph using mouse

legend Graph legend for lines and patches
texlabel Produce the TeX format from character string
title Titles for 2-D and 3-D plots
xlabel X-axis labels for 2-D and 3-D plots
ylabel Y-axis labels for 2-D and 3-D plots
zlabel Z-axis labels for 3-D plots

Specialized Plotting
• “Area, Bar, and Pie Plots”
• “Contour Plots”
• “Direction and Velocity Plots”
• “Discrete Data Plots”
• “Function Plots”
• “Histograms”
• “Polygons and Surfaces”
• “Scatter Plots”

Area, Bar, and Pie Plots

area Area plot
bar Vertical bar chart
barh Horizontal bar chart
bar3 Vertical 3-D bar chart
bar3h Horizontal 3-D bar chart
pareto Pareto char
pie Pie plot
pie3 3-D pie plot

Contour Plots
contour Contour (level curves) plot
contourc Contour computation
contourf Filled contour plot
ezcontour Easy to use contour plotter
ezcontourf Easy to use filled contour plotter

Direction and Velocity Plots

comet Comet plot
comet3 3-D comet plot

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compass Compass plot

feather Feather plot
quiver Quiver (or velocity) plot
quiver3 3-D quiver (or velocity) plot

Discrete Data Plots

stem Plot discrete sequence data
stem3 Plot discrete surface data
stairs Stairstep graph

Function Plots
ezcontour Easy to use contour plotter
ezcontourf Easy to use filled contour plotter
ezmesh Easy to use 3-D mesh plotter
ezmeshc Easy to use combination mesh/contour plotter
ezplot Easy to use function plotter
ezplot3 Easy to use 3-D parametric curve plotter
ezpolar Easy to use polar coordinate plotter
ezsurf Easy to use 3-D colored surface plotter
ezsurfc Easy to use combination surface/contour plotter
fplot Plot a function

Histograms
hist Plot histograms
histc Histogram count
rose Plot rose or angle histogram

Polygons and Surfaces

convhull Convex hull
cylinder Generate cylinder
delaunay Delaunay triangulation
dsearch Search Delaunay triangulation for nearest point
ellipsoid Generate ellipsoid
fill Draw filled 2-D polygons
fill3 Draw filled 3-D polygons in 3-space
inpolygon True for points inside a polygonal region
pcolor Pseudocolor (checkerboard) plot
polyarea Area of polygon
ribbon Ribbon plot
slice Volumetric slice plot
sphere Generate sphere

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tsearch Search for enclosing Delaunay triangle

voronoi Voronoi diagram
waterfall Waterfall plot

Scatter Plots
plotmatrix Scatter plot matrix
scatter Scatter plot
scatter3 3-D scatter plot

Bit-Mapped Images
frame2im Convert movie frame to indexed image
image Display image object
imagesc Scale data and display image object
imfinfo Information about graphics file
im2frame Convert image to movie frame
imread Read image from graphics file
imwrite Write image to graphics file
ind2rgb Convert indexed image to RGB image

Printing
orient Hardcopy paper orientation
pagesetupdlg Page position dialog box
print Print graph or save graph to file
printdlg Print dialog box
printopt Configure local printer defaults
printpreview Preview figure to be printed
saveas Save figure to graphic file

Handle Graphics
• Finding and Identifying Graphics Objects
• Object Creation Functions
• Figure Windows
• Axes Operations

Finding and Identifying Graphics Objects

allchild Find all children of specified objects
copyobj Make copy of graphics object and its children

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delete Delete files or graphics objects

findall Find all graphics objects (including hidden handles)
findobj Find objects with specified property values
gca Get current Axes handle
gcbo Return object whose callback is currently executing
gcbf Return handle of figure containing callback object
gco Return handle of current object
get Get object properties
ishandle True if value is valid object handle
rotate Rotate objects about specified origin and direction
set Set object properties

Object Creation Functions

axes Create axes object
figure Create figure (graph) windows
image Create image (2-D matrix)
light Create light object (illuminates Patch and Surface)
line Create line object (3-D polylines)
patch Create patch object (polygons)
rectangle Create rectangle object (2-D rectangle)
surface Create surface (quadrilaterals)
text Create text object (character strings)
uicontextmenu Create context menu (popup associated with object)

Figure Windows
capture Screen capture of the current figure
clc Clear figure window
clf Clear figure
close Close specified window
closereq Default close request function
drawnow Complete any pending drawing
gcf Get current figure handle
newplot Graphics M-file preamble for NextPlot property
refresh Refresh figure
saveas Save figure or model to desired output format

Axes Operations
axis Plot axis scaling and appearance
cla Clear Axes
gca Get current Axes handle
grid Grid lines for 2-D and 3-D plots

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