plotting two figures side by side

how do I plot two figures side by side?

Answer 1

[Laurent]

You can use subplot. First create a figure

figure;

and then

subplot(1,2,1)
%make here your first plot

subplot(1,2,2)
%make here your second plot

More info:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/subplot.html

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35297-matlab-plot-gallery-subplot-1/content/html/Subplot_1.html

[CaptCook]

Doesn't this create two "plots" side by side in the same "figure"? The question, which I am also asking, is whether there is any easy way to get 2 figures side by side? By default they seem to stack on top of each other.

[Lydia Keppler]

You can set the position of your figure with the following command: figure; set(gcf,'position',[20 50 1250 600])

Depending on the size of your screen, you might have to adjust the numbers, which indicate the position of the bottom and the left and the width and height of the figure. You can then set it so that the figures will be plotted next to each other.

Makes sense?

Answer 2

[Nate Roberts]

You can use the 'Position' information from gcf.

Here is an example:

close all

x = 0:0.01:60*pi;

figure(1);
plot(x,sin(x),'b'); xlim([0,2*pi]);
pos1 = get(gcf,'Position'); % get position of Figure(1) 
set(gcf,'Position', pos1 - [pos1(3)/2,0,0,0]) % Shift position of Figure(1) 

figure(2);
plot(x,cos(x),'r'); xlim([10*pi,60*pi]);
set(gcf,'Position', get(gcf,'Position') + [0,0,150,0]); % When Figure(2) is not the same size as Figure(1)
pos2 = get(gcf,'Position');  % get position of Figure(2) 
set(gcf,'Position', pos2 + [pos1(3)/2,0,0,0]) % Shift position of Figure(2)

Which results in two figures side by side: