slow drawing of a set of points on a plane
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Dear Sir
please let me have a help
this is a simple set of statements that:
-define figure 1
-clear the figure
-define a matrix 2 x 82 ,where each column represent the coordinate of a point on a plane
these set of points represent a circle and a cross , centered inside
-then do a loop that draw each point at a time, as red dot
the "hold on" is needed because at each loop i wish to maintain the points already drawed
the purpose of this code is to visualize this figure first undeformed, and after, with some deformation gradient F applied to the set of points, (and) with another (more external) loop , to visualize the advance of the deformation making the gradient F varying
(F not present in the code below)
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clear
figure(1),clf
p=[[cos(0:.1:1.9*pi) (-1:.2:1) 0*(-1:.2:1) ]' [sin(0:.1:1.9*pi) 0*(-1:.2:1) (-1:.2:1) ]']'
for j=1:max(size(p)) % visualize
figure(1),plot(p(1,j),p(2,j),'r.'),grid on, axis([-2 2 -2 2]),axis('square')
hold on
end
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now , to draw this simple figure it take roughly 1 second , so i ask were i'm wrong , and how can I speed up the execution of this code
the specification of the pc is as follow
Device name s.
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G860 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
Installed RAM 4.00 GB
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Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 22H2
Installed on 11/7/2020
OS build 19045.4355
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19056.1000.0
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Thankyou very much
Kind Regards
manu1965
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Aquatris
on 23 Aug 2024
In essence for loop are always slower. So try to vectorize your code whereever possible for efficiency, here is a good read. In your case vectorizing the code makes it ~10 times faster
p=[[cos(0:.1:1.9*pi) (-1:.2:1) 0*(-1:.2:1) ]' [sin(0:.1:1.9*pi) 0*(-1:.2:1) (-1:.2:1) ]']';
% for loop ploting
tic
figure(1)
for j=1:max(size(p)) % visualize
figure(1),plot(p(1,j),p(2,j),'r.'),grid on, axis([-2 2 -2 2]),axis('square')
hold on
end
timeViaForLoop = toc
% vector plotting
tic
figure(2)
plot(p(1,:),p(2,:),'r.'),grid on, axis([-2 2 -2 2]),axis('square')
timeViaVectorizeCode = toc
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Voss
on 22 Aug 2024
p = [ cos(0:.1:1.9*pi), -1:.2:1, 0*(-1:.2:1) ; sin(0:.1:1.9*pi), 0*(-1:.2:1), -1:.2:1 ]
figure
plot(p(1,:),p(2,:),'r.')
grid on
axis([-2 2 -2 2])
axis('square')
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