can you embed MATLAB figures into webpage?

I have a series of surf plots that i would lke to embedd into a webpage maintaining the functionality to select points/zoom/rotate. Does matlab offer anything that can enable this? the best i could find was an old FX post (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32207-matlab-3d-figure-to-3d-x-html) but this doesnt really meet my needs.

Answer 1

[Les Beckham]

You can use Matlab Compiler to create Web Apps. Perhaps that would meet your need?

[William Renold-Smith]

Hi Les, thats an interesting thought but looking into it that solution needs for running a web app server, which will stop me using it in the application I want as i need the results to be easily accessible widely without the need to host on a server.

I appreciate your help though!

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Your options:

• run an application on a server that sends out graphics (perhaps using javascript, perhaps using HTML5)
• distribute a compiled application to end-users
• use the 3d interactive extensions of pdf; https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/37640-export-figure-to-3d-interactive-pdf
• Use X3D https://www.mathworks.com/help/sl3d/x3d-extensible-3d-graphics.html such as is handled by the File Exchange contribution you found

[Steven Lord]

Another option could be to provide the script or function that creates the plots, or a saved figure file with the plots, to the user and let them use MATLAB Online or MATLAB Online Basic to create/interact with them.

Answer 3

[William Renold-Smith]

I've just found a really useful item on FX which exports figures to html using plotly, I'm currently investigating this option.

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42202-plotly-online-matlab-graphing

I'll feedback if I manage to get it to suit my needs, thanks for the advice everyone!