comets

Function Synopsis

comets(x,y,p,color,linesty,linewid)

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 COMETS Multiple comet plot.
      COMET(Y) displays an animated comet plot of the vector Y.
      COMET(X,Y) displays an animated comet plot of vector Y vs. X.
      COMET(X,Y,P) uses a comet of length p*length(Y).
        Default is p = 0.10.
      COMETS(X,Y,P,COLOR,LINESTY,LINEWID)
        Other arguments that can be specified are:
      COLOR = [CH1 CB1 CT1; CH2 CB2 CT2; ... ; CHN CBN CTN], where
        CH - color of the head,  CB - body, CT - tail. The full
        format is Nx3 string matrix if colors are letters (among 
        'rgbycmwk') or Nx9 number matrix if colors are RGB triplets.
      LINESTYLE = [LSH1 LSB1 LST1; ... ; LSHN LSBN LSTN],
        where LSH1 of the size [1 2] is the linestyle of the head,
        etc. The full size is Nx6 string matrix, each linestyle 
        represented by [1 2] size  string: 'o ', '- ', '--', etc.
        For example LINESTYLE = ['x --- '; '* - -'] represents two
        comets: the first one with the head 'x', the body '--' and
        the tail '-', the second with the head '*', the body '-' and
        the tail '-'.    
      LINEWIDTH = [LWH1 LWB1 LWT1; ... LWHN LWBN LWTN], where LWH1
        (positive integer) is the linewidth (or markersize) of the
        head, etc. The full size is Nx3 matrix.

      If all line property arguments (COLOR, LINESTYLE, LINEWIDTH)
      have only 1 row, then COMETS works in fast "vectorized" regime
      and all comets have the same colors and linestyles (only 3 line
      objects will be created). If any of these arguments have more
      than 1 row the total number of comets will be equal to the
      number of columns of matrices X and Y, each comet represented
      by 3 separate line objects (their movement is slower in this
      case). If the number of rows in the line property arguments is 
      less than the number of columns in X, Y then colors and
      linestyles will be cycled through.

      COMETS is the front-end to COMETS0, which can be called by
      itself but with stricter syntax.
        
      COMETS, by itself, is self demonstrating.
	Example:
	    t = -pi:pi/200:pi;
	    comets(t,tan(sin(t))-sin(tan(t)))
	See also COMETS0, CMTSDEMO, COMET, COMET3.

Cross-Reference Information

This function calls

• comets0

This function is called by

• cmtsdemo