Basic Plotting Commands (Graphics)

Graphics

Basic Plotting Commands

MATLAB provides a variety of functions for displaying vector data as line plots, as well as functions for annotating and printing these graphs. The following table summarizes the functions that produce basic line plots. These functions differ in the way they scale the plot's axes. Each accepts input in the form of vectors or matrices and automatically scales the axes to accommodate the data.

Function
Description

plot
Graph 2-D data with linear scales for both axes

plot3
Graph 3-D data with linear scales for both axes

loglog
Graph with logarithmic scales for both axes

semilogx
Graph with a logarithmic scale for the x-axis and a linear scale for the y-axis

semilogy
Graph with a logarithmic scale for the y-axis and a linear scale for the x-axis

plotyy
Graph with y-tick labels on the left and right side

Function	Description
`plot`	Graph 2-D data with linear scales for both axes
`plot3`	Graph 3-D data with linear scales for both axes
`loglog`	Graph with logarithmic scales for both axes
`semilogx`	Graph with a logarithmic scale for the x-axis and a linear scale for the y-axis
`semilogy`	Graph with a logarithmic scale for the y-axis and a linear scale for the x-axis
`plotyy`	Graph with y-tick labels on the left and right side

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