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From: Lothar Schmidt <vapooroop@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: creating a cylinder plot
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:06:06 +0200
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inon stel schrieb:
> Bob <rbemis@mathworks.com> wrote in message
> <g0afno$nf1$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> If you know the X, Y and Z values then does PLOT3 not do
> what you need?
>> Cheers
>> Bob
> 
> no, because I need it to be cylinder shaped so that
> the orientation (in degrees) would make sense...
> Thanks
> Ini

perhaps you want to normalize your (X,Y) data in a way that 
sqrt(Xnorm^2+Ynorm^2)=1 while Xnorm/Ynorm=X/Y?

plot3(Xnorm,Ynorm,Time) could be what you need

good luck
Lo