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Plot velocity vectors as cones in a 3-D vector field
Syntax
coneplot(X,Y,Z,U,V,W,Cx,Cy,Cz)
coneplot(U,V,W,Cx,Cy,Cz)
coneplot(...,s)
coneplot(...,color)
coneplot(...,'quiver')
coneplot(...,'method
')
coneplot(X,Y,Z,U,V,W,'nointerp')
comeplot(axes_handle,...)
h = coneplot(...)
Description
coneplot(X,Y,Z,U,V,W,Cx,Cy,Cz)
plots velocity vectors as cones pointing in the direction of the velocity vector and having a length proportional to the magnitude of the velocity vector.
X
, Y
, Z
define the coordinates for the vector field.
U
, V
, W
define the vector field. These arrays must be the same size, monotonic, and 3-D plaid (such as the data produced by meshgrid
).
Cx
, Cy
, Cz
define the location of the cones in the vector field. The section Starting Points for Stream Plots in Visualization Techniques provides more information on defining starting points.
coneplot(U,V,W,Cx,Cy,Cz)
(omitting the X
, Y
, and Z
arguments) assumes [X,Y,Z] = meshgrid(1:n,1:m,1:p)
where [m,n,p]= size(U)
.
coneplot(...,s)
MATLAB automatically scales the cones to fit the graph and then stretches them by the scale factor s
. If you do not specify a value for s, MATLAB uses a value of 1. Use s =
0
to plot the cones without automatic scaling.
coneplot(...,color)
interpolates the array color
onto the vector field and then colors the cones according to the interpolated values. The size of the color
array must be the same size as the U
, V
, W
arrays. This option works only with cones (i.e., not with the quiver
option).
coneplot(...,'quiver')
draws arrows instead of cones (see quiver3
for an illustration of a quiver plot).
coneplot(...,
'method
')
specifies the interpolation method to use. method
can be linear
, cubic
, or nearest
. linear
is the default (see interp3
for a discussion of these interpolation methods).
coneplot(X,Y,Z,U,V,W,'nointerp')
does not interpolate the positions of the cones into the volume. The cones are drawn at positions defined by X
, Y
, Z
and are oriented according to U
, V
, W
. Arrays X
, Y
, Z
, U
, V
, W
must all be the same size.
coneplot(axes_handle,...)
plots into the axes with handle axes_handle
instead of the current axes (gca
).
h = coneplot(...)
returns the handle to the patch
object used to draw the cones. You can use the set
command to change the properties of the cones.
Remarks
coneplot
automatically scales the cones to fit the graph, while keeping them in proportion to the respective velocity vectors.
It is usually best to set the data aspect ratio of the axes before calling coneplot
. You can set the ratio using the daspect
command,
Examples
This example plots the velocity vector cones for vector volume data representing the motion of air through a rectangular region of space. The final graph employs a number of enhancements to visualize the data more effectively. These include
1. Load and Inspect Data
The winds data set contains six 3-D arrays: u
, v
, and w
specify the vector components at each of the coordinates specified in x
, y
, and z
. The coordinates define a lattice grid structure where the data is sampled within the volume.
It is useful to establish the range of the data to place the slice planes and to specify where you want the cone plots (min
, max
).
2. Create the Cone Plot
linspace
, meshgrid
).
daspect
to set the data aspect ratio of the axes before calling coneplot
so MATLAB can determine the proper size of the cones.
FaceColor
, EdgeColor
).
3. Add the Slice Planes
slice
command.
xmin
and xmax
, along the y-axis at ymax
, and along the z-axis at zmin
.
hold
, slice
, FaceColor
, EdgeColor
).
4. Define the View
axis
command to set the axis limits equal to the range of the data.
view
to azimuth = 30 and elevation = 40 (rotate3d
is a useful command for selecting the best view).
camproj
).
camzoom
).
The light source affects both the slice planes (surfaces) and the cone plots (patches). However, you can set the lighting characteristics of each independently.
camlight
, lighting
).
AmbientStrength
property for each slice plane to improve the visibility of the dark blue colors. (Note that you can also specify a different colormap
to change the coloring of the slice planes.)
DiffuseStrength
property of the cones to brighten particularly those cones not showing specular reflections.
See Also
isosurface
, patch
, reducevolume
, smooth3
, streamline
, stream2
, stream3
, subvolume
Volume Visualization for related functions
condest | conj |
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