Legend not working with plot (just have some incorrect colors)

I created the following function called getCircle:

    % 
function [x,y] = getCircle(c,r) %function of the circle
%c = center; r = radius 
%   Using this program will enable you to plot circles based on values 
%   inputted for center and radius 
x = r*cosd(0:360)+c(1); % x coordinates 
y = r*sind(0:360)+c(2); %y coordinates 
end

I am calling the function in this script:

      % r = [1, 3, 5]; %radius inputs
c = [6, -6] %center inputs
color = {'g', 'b', 'r'}
for radius = r
    for c1 = c
        [x,y] = getCircle([c1,6],radius);
        plot (x,y, color{(radius + 1)/2})
        hold on
    end
end
grid on
xlabel('Radius from defined centers', 'Fontsize', 15)
ylabel('Radius from defined centers', 'Fontsize' , 15)
legend ('Rad1', 'Rad3','Rad5')
    end

my issue is when i plot it, the legend is not correct. I want my legend to correspond to each circle. Here is how it's coming out right now:

As you can see, Rad3 and Rad5 are not color coded correctly. I need Rad 3 to be blue (corresponding to it's circles) and Rad5 to be red. How would I go about this? Thank you

Answer 1

[Les Beckham]

If you make the 'for radius = r' loop the inner loop instead of the outer loop, you should get what you want.

What is happening is that you are plotting circles that alternate between the left and right side of your figure (the center (c1) is changing fastest) but the colors are based on the radius. So the first two lines you plot (the small circles) have the same green color. Since your legend only has three entries for the total of six lines (i.e. circles) that you plotted, you get the first three - which are two green lines and a blue one.