Graphics

Basic Plotting Commands

MATLAB provides a variety of functions for displaying vector data as line plots, as well as functions for annotating and printing these graphs. The following table summarizes the functions that produce basic line plots. These functions differ in the way they scale the plot's axes. Each accepts input in the form of vectors or matrices and automatically scales the axes to accommodate the data.

Function	Description
plot	Graph 2-D data with linear scales for both axes
plot3	Graph 3-D data with linear scales for both axes
loglog	Graph with logarithmic scales for both axes
semilogx	Graph with a logarithmic scale for the x-axis and a linear scale for the y-axis
semilogy	Graph with a logarithmic scale for the y-axis and a linear scale for the x-axis
plotyy	Graph with y-tick labels on the left and right side

Basic Plotting

Creating Line Plots