Animation

Animating plots

Functions

`movie`	Play recorded movie frames
`getframe`	Capture axes or figure as movie frame
`frame2im`	Return image data associated with movie frame
`im2frame`	Convert image to movie frame

`animatedline`	Create animated line
`addpoints`	Add points to animated line
`getpoints`	Return points that define animated line
`clearpoints`	Clear points from animated line
`comet`	2-D comet plot
`comet3`	3-D comet plot

`drawnow`	Update figures and process callbacks
`refreshdata`	Refresh charted data

Line animation appearance and behavior

You can use three basic techniques for creating animations in MATLAB^®.

This example shows how to trace a marker along a line by updating the data properties of the marker.

This example shows how to create an animation of two growing lines.

This example shows how to move a group of objects together along a line using transforms.

This example shows how to animate a triangle looping around the inside of a circle by updating the data properties of the triangle.

Visualize the speed and direction of particles within vector fields using streamlines.

These examples show how to record animations as movies that you can replay.

This example shows how to animate a surface.