How to plot a grid with a for loop.

Hi everyone,

I am trying to design a program which must be able to plot a grid (of dost for example in this specific case).

So the user enters the value n of the number of dots that the grid must have (I have entered here 46 as an example) and now the program must draw all the dots beggining with one knew dot (the dot 0).

From the coordinates of that knew dot, the following ones (until the n-th one, that is, until the 46-th one) must be drawn by adding 1 to the X coordinate of the previous one and adding 3 to the Y coordinate of the previous one.

I have tried to design that program in the following code (with a for loop) but it doesn`t work, it seems that matlab doesn't recognize that notation that I have written in the 7-th and 8-th lines of code..

dot(0)=[6,6];   %The first dot of all (knew)
i=0;
j=0;
for 1:46        %I want to draw up to n dots (46 for example)
    i=i+1;
    j=i-1;
    dot(i)(1)=dot(j)(1)+1;    %The i-th dot's X coordinate is the previous dot's X coordinate +1
    dot(i)(2)=dot(j)(2)+3;    %The i-th dot's Y coordinate is the previous dot's Y coordinate +3
end

Anyone knows how program it in the correct way?

Anyone knows the correct way of writing those 7-th and 8-th line of code?

Thanks very much to everyone.

[Image Analyst]

Are you trying to create a digital image (an array), that you'd display with imshow()? Or are you trying to create a graph where you'd plot dots with a command like plot(x, y, 'b.', 'MarkerSize', 50)?

[ErikJon Pérez Mardaras]

Thanks for your reply!

What I am trying to do is the following.

In the real life you can write down in your notebook the following vectors following a pattern until the eternity.

And you can refer to its coordinates like that

I am trying to to the exactly SAME thing but in matlab, I mean, write (with a for loop for example) as many vectors as I wish following a simple pattern.

I know that a way of doing that is by writing you manually one by one like this:

dot1=[7,9];
dot2=[8,12];
dot3=[9,15];
dot4=[10,18];
dot5=[11,21];
dot6=[12,24];
dot7=[13,27];
dot8=[14,30];
%and so on manually....

But what I am trying to do is to generalize it, with a simple loop to save code lines and to be more quickly to do it by leting matlab to build those vectors in a quick moment instead of being you writing them one by one.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Yazan]

N = 64;
a = 7;
b = 9;

x = a:a+N-1;
y = b:3:b+3*N-1;

figure, 
plot(x, y, 'o'), grid minor
xlabel('X'), ylabel('Y');

[ErikJon Pérez Mardaras]

Thanks for your reply!

And how can I refer to the dots theirselves? Lets say for example that I would like in a certain moment to refer to the 23th dot (dot23) or to the 12th dot (dot12).

If I have introduced the manually, I can easily do that by tiping dot23 or dot12, but how can it be done in that automatic way?

[Yazan]

If by dot23, you mean the datapoint with the 23rd values of x and y, then that's very easy:

dot23 = [x(23); y(23)]

[ErikJon Pérez Mardaras]

Thanks a lot!

And there is any way of refering to it automatically?

As well as you can refer, in a general way, to a element of a Matrix like this, by changing as you wish the value of i

element=A(i)

Is there also any way of refering automatically to the i-th dot/vector? Like

dot(i)=

[Yazan]

Save the data in a N-by-2 matrix. The first column is the X-coordinates and the second is the Y-coordinates.

dat = [x(:), y(:)];

Now, to access the datapoint of index i, just use

dot = dat(i, :);

[ErikJon Pérez Mardaras]

Thanks!