Plotting

Abstract

Without visualization, numerical computations are difficult to judge. Producing publication quality images of complex plots that provide meaningful analysis of numerical results has been a challenge for scientists all over the world. Many commercial software programs have been very successful in satisfying this need. MATLAB also provides this facility. Its plotting features include choosing from various types of plots in 2D and 3D, enhancing plots with additional information like titles, labeled axes, grids, and labels for data, and writing equations and other important information about the data. The most important feature is that plots can be defined in a programmatic manner, i.e., you can enter the data for a plot using a computer program. This is quite different than entering the data by hand.