making a movie from plots

I am making an animation using a loop and the pause() function, and I want to save the entire animation to make a movie. The plot, as I understand, continuously refreshes to make an animation.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See the example http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/videowriter.writevideo.html#bus0tu7

[Tanziha Mahjabin]

Hi,

i have already saved figures in a folder. how can i make a gif in matlab combining all of them?

[Hussein]

Please try this

[Hussein]

clc clear all close all Z = peaks; surf(Z) axis tight set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren','visible','off') f = getframe; [im,map] = rgb2ind(f.cdata,256,'nodither'); im(1,1,1,20) = 0; for k = 1:20 surf(cos(2*pi*k/20)*Z,Z) f = getframe; im(:,:,1,k) = rgb2ind(f.cdata,map,'nodither'); end imwrite(im,map,'DancingPeaks.gif','DelayTime',0.1,'LoopCount',inf) %g443800

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

See attached demos, especially movie_made_from_plot.m.