Changing color of plot

Hi,

I need to make plot that has two colors of line red and blue, and the line should be red when value is increasing and blue when value is decreasing and when I use dotted line it works 'b*' but without this it doesn't work 'b' I think I should define first point of plot but I'm not sure.

x = -10:.01:10;
for ii = 1:length(x)
      y(ii) = sin(x(ii));  % Data point ii has come in.
      if y(ii)<0
          c = 'b*';
      else
          c = 'r*';
      end
      plot(x(ii),y(ii),c)
      hold on
  end

[Rik]

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[Rik]

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Changing color of plot when value is increasing

Hi,

I need to make plot that has two colors of line red and blue, and the line should be red when value is increasing and blue when value is decreasing and when I use dotted line it works 'b*' but without this it doesn't work 'b' I think I should define first point of plot but I'm not sure.

x = -10:.01:10;
for ii = 1:length(x)
      y(ii) = sin(x(ii));  % Data point ii has come in.
      if y(ii)<0
          c = 'b*';
      else
          c = 'r*';
      end
      plot(x(ii),y(ii),c)
      hold on
  end

Answer 1

[Sargondjani]

The problem is that you plot only 1 point at a time. So there is no line to plot, just a point. That's why your code doesn't work when you only specify a line type, for example c = '-b';

You could plot line segments:

plot([x(ii-1),x(ii)],[y(ii-1),y(ii)],c)

Another thing: you mention that you want it to be red, when value is increasing, so you criterion should be y(ii)>y(ii-1).

So your code becomes:

x = -10:.01:10;

y = sin(x);

for ii = 2:length(x)

if y(ii)>y(ii-1)

c = '-b';

else

c = '-r';

end

plot([x(ii-1),x(ii)],[y(ii-1),y(ii)],c)

hold on

end