Maximum Recursion limit of 500 Reached Error.

I am using this code to plot number of circles. However, when I run it says that Maximum recursion limit of 500 reached. Use set(0,'RecursionLimit',N) to change the limit. How to correct this error?

function h = circle3(x,y,r)
   d = r*2;
   px = x-r;
   py = y-r;
   h = rectangle('Position',[px py d d],'Curvature',[1,1]);
   daspect([1,1,1])
  for i =1:20
    x=0 + (5+5)*rand(1)
    y=0 + (5+5)*rand(1)
    r=0.5
    circle3(x,y,r)
    hold on 
  end

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

You need to rewrite your logic so that your circle3 function has a way to return to the caller. As it is now, the only thing that circle3 does is call circle3, which calls circle3, which calls circle3, etc.

[Iqbal Farjad]

Can you please assist me with that or give me an example how can I rewrite?

Answer 2

[Matt J]

The code which invokes circle3() should be placed elsewhere. circle3() should contain only the following,

    function h = circle3(x,y,r)

       d = r*2;
       px = x-r;
       py = y-r;
       h = rectangle('Position',[px py d d],'Curvature',[1,1]);
       daspect([1,1,1])

   end

[Matt J]

Incidentally, if you have the Image Processing Toolbox, just use VISCIRCLES.