Why is matlab creating multiple figures

I have a picture of the code and part of what its doing when I run it but it is creating hundreds of figures of the two plots I'm trying to create. Clearly I'm missing something

[KSSV]

Every time a new figure is being opened becuase figure is mentioned. Comment it or delete this. If you want all plots in a single figure use hold on

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You are calling figure() within your while loop, so each time you create a new figure.

You should probably be calling figure() passing in a figure number

figure(2);

and

figure(3);

Answer 2

[Arjun]

Hi,

As per my understanding of the question, the issue is that on running the program many figure windows open which is not the desired output.

• The reason is the abuse of the MATLAB figure inside the while loop which is running N number of times.
• Each time inside the loop two new figure window are created and thus you get 2*N number of figure windows from inside the while loop itself.
• Whenever you write figure MATLAB creates a new figure window and automatically sets it as the current window where all the activity will go in.

Please refer more about figure in the documentation attached.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/figure.html#d126e490493

Instead, what you can do is to use figure(x) syntax to select a particular already existing figure and make it current figure and then use hold on to draw in the same plot and same figure.

Please read through documentation of hold.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/hold.html?searchHighlight=hold%20on%20documentation&s_tid=srchtitle_support_results_1_hold%20on%20documentation

I hope this will help!