Basic Plot and Graphics

Built-in functions › Graphics › Basic Plot and Graphics

97 functions in this category.

Function	What it does
axes	Create or activate axes within a figure.
axis	Get or set axis limits and properties.
belt	Belt plot — line plot rendered as a 3D ribbon.
box	Show or hide the axes box outline.
caxis	Get or set color-axis limits.
clf	Clear the current figure.
close	Close one or more figures.
compass	Compass plot — vectors radiating from origin.
contour	Contour plot of a 2D scalar field.
contour3	3D contour plot.
contourf	Filled contour plot.
dmarker	Add a delta marker (difference between two data points).
errorbar	Plot data points with error bars.
feather	Feather plot — vectors at regular x positions.
figure	Create or activate a chart sheet (figure window).
gca	Handle to the current axes.
gcf	Handle to the current figure.
gcs	Handle to the current sheet.
get	Get property values from a graph object.
graph	Get a graph handle by name or index.
grid	Show or hide the axes grid.
hidden	Toggle hidden-line removal in mesh plots.
histogram	Histogram of data.
hold	Control whether new plots replace or add to existing graphs.
line3d	3D line plot with thick rendering.
loglog	Log-log scale 2D plot.
marker	Add or get a data-point marker on a graph.
plot	2D line / marker plot.
plot3	3D line plot.
plotyy	Plot two data sets on different left and right y-axes.
polar	Plot in polar coordinates.
radar	Radar / spider chart.
radarf	Filled radar chart.
rose	Polar histogram (rose plot).
semilogx	Semi-log plot (logarithmic x-axis).
semilogy	Semi-log plot (logarithmic y-axis).
set	Set property values on a graph object.
subplot	Create or activate one of multiple axes in a grid.
title	Set the title of the current axes.
tube	Tube plot — line plot rendered with a tube of finite radius.
xlabel	Set the x-axis label.
xlim	Get or set x-axis limits.
xmarker	Add an x-axis marker (vertical line at a specific x value).
xticklabels	Get or set x-axis tick labels.
xticks	Get or set x-axis tick locations.
ylabel	Set the y-axis label.
ylim	Get or set y-axis limits.
ymarker	Add a y-axis marker (horizontal line at a specific y value).
yticklabels	Get or set y-axis tick labels.
yticks	Get or set y-axis tick locations.
zlabel	Set the z-axis label.
zlim	Get or set z-axis limits.
zticklabels	Get or set z-axis tick labels.
zticks	Get or set z-axis tick locations.

Discrete Data Plots

Function	What it does
area	Area plot — line plot with filled area below.
area3	3D area plot.
bar	Vertical bar chart.
bar3	3D bar chart.
bar3h	3D horizontal bar chart.
barh	Horizontal bar chart.
bubble	2D bubble plot — scatter with marker area encoding a third variable.
bubble3	3D bubble plot.
bubble3d	3D bubble plot rendered as actual spheres (volumetric).
coneplot	3D cone plot of vectors.
contourslice	Contour slices through a 3D volume.
cubeplot	3D cube plot of vectors.
curl	Curl of a vector field.
curve	Smooth curve through points (Bézier / spline-like rendering).
cylinderplot	3D cylinder plot of vectors.
divergence	Divergence of a vector field.
donut	2D donut chart.
donut3	3D donut chart.
fill	Filled 2D polygon.
fill3	Filled 3D polygon.
gradient	Numerical gradient of a scalar field.
isosurface	Extract an isosurface from a 3D scalar volume.
patch	Generic polygon (2D or 3D).
pie	Pie chart.
pie3	3D pie chart.
plotmatrix	Scatterplot matrix.
quiver	2D vector field plot.
quiver3	3D vector field plot.
scatter	2D scatter plot with optional size and color encoding.
scatter3	3D scatter plot.
slice	Slice a 3D scalar volume with planar cuts.
sphereplot	3D sphere plot of vectors.
spy	Sparsity-pattern plot of a sparse matrix.
stairs	Stairs plot — like step but with the stems shown.
stem	Stem plot — vertical lines from the x-axis to each data point.
step	Step plot — piecewise-constant series.
stream2	Compute (without plotting) 2D streamline vertex coordinates.
stream3	Compute (without plotting) 3D streamline vertex coordinates.
streamline	Streamlines through a 2D or 3D vector field.
streamribbon	Streamribbons — streamlines as twisted ribbons showing local rotation.
streamslice	Streamlines on a 2D slice of a 3D vector field.
streamtube	Streamtubes — streamlines rendered with a width that varies with divergence.
volumebounds	Bounding-box limits for a 3D vector or scalar volume.