Animate 2D coordinate plot

I have a list of x,y coordinates for a particle. I would like to animate the plot so it looks like the particle is drawing out its path. I have attached what the final plot looks like in excel. Can someone help me turn this into an animated Matlab figure? Thanks!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Try this —

D1 = readmatrix('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/678468/Clcoords.xls');

figure
hold on
for k = 1:size(D1,1)-1
    plot(D1(k:k+1,1), D1(k:k+1,2), '.-b')
    axis([-150  150    -150  150])
    pause(0.01)
    drawnow
end
hold off

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[Kelly McGuire]

Yes this is great! How would I save this as maybe a video to show in a presentation?

[Star Strider]

Thank you!

See the documentation for movie. It describes all the necessary steps, and links to other necessary functions.

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[Kelly McGuire]

Great thanks!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

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