How can I plot a 2D variable with a slider for the 3rd dimension?

Hi!

I have a 32x1x120 variable (so I have 32 values in 120 instants of time), and I would like to plot the 32 values for time = 1, for time = 2, and eventually for time = 120. To not make 120 plots, I thought I could make a slider for the time dimension so that I could use one figure and slide through time for the 32 values, but I'm totally uncertain as to how to proceed.

So I would like something like this but with a slider for time below:

Thanks so much in advance.

Kind regards,

Guillem

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

This demo produces data as you described and a slider is used to select the 3rd dimension of the data to be plotted.

data = rand(32,1,120);

uif = uifigure(); 
uax = uiaxes(uif,'Position', [20 100 500 300]); 
bh = bar(uax, data(:,:,1));
hold(uax, 'off') % don't hold!
grid(uax, 'on')
n = size(data,3);
uis = uislider(uif,'Position',[50 50 450 3],...
    'Value',0, ...
    'Limits', [0,n], ...
    'MajorTicks', 0:10:n, ...
    'MinorTicks', []);
uis.ValueChangedFcn = @(h,~)bar(uax,data(:,:,round(h.Value))); 

Alternatively you can use a local function to change the bar plot and the title to indicate the selected index.

data = rand(32,1,120);

uif = uifigure(); 
uax = uiaxes(uif,'Position', [20 100 500 300]); 
bh = bar(uax, data(:,:,1));
title(uax, '1');
hold(uax, 'off') % don't hold!
grid(uax, 'on')
n = size(data,3);
uis = uislider(uif,'Position',[50 50 450 3],...
    'Value',0, ...
    'Limits', [0,n], ...
    'MajorTicks', 0:10:n, ...
    'MinorTicks', []);
uis.ValueChangedFcn = {@sliderChangedFcn, uax, data};

function sliderChangedFcn(h,~,uax,data)
value = round(h.Value);   
bar(uax,data(:,:,value))
title(uax,num2str(value))
end

[Guillem Campins]

Yes! It works excellently. Thank you so much Adam!