Animation

Animating plots

Create animations to visualize data changing over time. Display changing data in real time or record a movie or GIF to replay later.

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
`streamparticles`	Plot stream particles

`drawnow`	Update figures and process callbacks
`pause`	Stop MATLAB execution temporarily
`refreshdata`	Refresh charted data
`linkdata`	Automatically update charted data

Line animation appearance and behavior

Animation Techniques
You can use three basic techniques for creating animations in MATLAB^®.
Animate Triangle Within Circle
This example shows how to animate a triangle looping around the inside of a circle by updating the data properties of the triangle.
Animating a Surface
This example shows how to animate a surface.
Move Group of Objects Along Line
This example shows how to move a group of objects together along a line using transforms.
Line Animations
This example shows how to create an animation of two growing lines.
Create Stream Particle Animations
Visualize the speed and direction of particles within vector fields using streamlines.