ANIMATION BY USING MATLAB

BY S. M. Kulkarni
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Outline
Animation
What? Why?

animation in matlab
comet handle graphics examples
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Animation
What is animation?
process of creating continuous motion and shape change illusion

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Animation and image courtesy: Wikipedia

Animation
Why animation is used?
Data representation of dynamics of system Good visual impact
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Animation in matlab
2 Facilities
1) Comet Similar to plot command, Can animate 2D or 3D plots,

Comet head moves along the curve and tail traces the line connecting data points,
Graph Being Plotted
Image courtesy: Wikipedia
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Animation in matlab
1) Comet
Command Syntax (for 2D curves) >> comet (x, y)
where x and y are the predefined vectors to be plotted

e.g.
Animating a line y = 0.5 * x + 5, in the range of 0 < x < 10 1) Define vector of x and y, 2) Use comet (x, y) figure window will open and you will see a curve being plotted. Practice Examples Straight line, Circle, Triangle, Ellipse.etc.
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Animation in matlab
1) Comet
Command Syntax (for 3D curves) >> comet (x, y, z)
where x, y and z are the predefined vectors to be plotted e.g. Animate 3D inwardly spiraling helix by using following co ordinates X = exp(-0.02*t).*sin(t), Y = exp(-0.02*t).*cos(t), Z = t. 1) Define vector for t, range of t is [0, 10*pi] 2) Define vectors for X, Y. Limitations: Simple but can animate curves only.
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Animation in matlab
2) Handle Graphics
i) What is Handle?
floating point number (FPN) assigned by MATLAB for every entity in figure window which can be used as an address for that entity

ii) How to give handle?

MATLAB gives handle to every entity automatically. Handles can also be given by users as >> hl = plot (x, y) % plots line and returns FPN i.e. handle of plotted line
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Animation in matlab
2) Handle Graphics
Commands Related to handle
get (hl) lists all properties related to handle hl and its values

To change entity properties

set (handle, PropertyName, PropertyValue)

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Animation in matlab
2) Handle Graphics
A bead rotating around the circumference of circle
clf; % Clears any previous figure

theta = 0:0.001:2*pi; x = cos(theta); y = sin(theta);

hbead = line (x(1), y(1),'marker','o',... 'markersize',10);

% Draws the bead at initial position % and assigns handle to it % Sets the limits of the axes % Sets the format of axes to Square

axis([-1 1 -1 1]); axis('square'); for k = 2:length(theta) set(hbead,'xdata',x(k),'ydata',y(k)); drawnow end

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%draws bead at new position

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Animation in matlab
2) Handle Graphics
A program for Slider Crank Mechanism 1) Develop the mathematical expressions for various points on it 2) Develop program for it.

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Any questions ? ? ?

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Thank You

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