How to plot a temperature in xy axis (2D temperature contour)?
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Hi i am new to matlab and I wanted to plot the temperature in x,y as shown above. I have set of data in excel file.
I've tried using surf plot but i keep getting errors "Z must be a matrix, not a scalar or vector."
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Rik
on 2 Dec 2019
Surf will plot a surface where the complete grid of combinations of x and y are known. Is that the case for you? If not, you can probably interpolate your data to a complete grid.
Note that usually the z value determines the color, so if you have more than one z for the same x y, you should explain what exactly you expect to be your output. Also, attaching your data in a mat file may be helpful.
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Rik
on 2 Dec 2019
Edited: Rik
on 4 Dec 2019
The surf function expects a matrix, so you will have to convert your linear data to a matrix. The accumarray function is a very flexible tool and worth exploring if you've never seen it before. A general advice would be to read the documentation for functions you are trying to use, and read the related functions linked at the bottom if you think it doesn't quite do what you need.
The code below should result in a plot you expect. Play around with the syntax for surf and colorbar to get the exact output you want.
%read data
filename='Temperature.csv';
Data = csvread(filename,6,0);%skip 6 header lines
X_data=Data(:,1);
Y_data=Data(:,2);
T_data=Data(:,4);
%create grid
[x,~,xi]=unique(X_data);
[y,~,yi]=unique(Y_data);
subs=[xi yi];%use the indices instead of values as coordinates
val=T_data;
M=accumarray(subs,val,[],[],NaN);%fill missing with NaN
[X,Y]=ndgrid(x,y);%generate the grid surf() expects
%create plot
figure(1),clf(1)
surf(X,Y,M)
%overlay the raw data points (optional)
% hold on
% plot3(X_data,Y_data,T_data,'*')
% hold off
view(0,90),xlabel('x'),ylabel('y')
colorbar
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Liping Ai
on 4 Dec 2019
It is clear that the 4th column is a temperature vector. What does the data in the 1st and 2nd column represent? Are they the coordinate vectors of an area?
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Vidya shree V
on 24 Sep 2020
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