ABSTRACT
MATLAB’s capabilities for plotting curves and surfaces are versatile and easy to understand. In fact, the effort required to learn MATLAB would be rewarding even if it were only used to construct plots, save graphic images, and output publication quality graphs on a laser printer. Numerous help features and well-written demo programs are included with MATLAB. By executing the demo programs and studying the relevant code, users can quickly understand the techniques necessary to implement graphics within their programs. This chapter discusses a few of the graphics commands. These commands are useful in many applications and do not require extensive time to master. This next section provides a quick overview of the basics of using MATLAB’s graphics. The subsequent sections in this chapter present several additional examples (summarized in the table below) involving interesting applications which use these graphics primitives.
