3D Rose Plot?

Hi Everyone

Does anyone know of any way of doing a 3D Rose Plot in Matlab? I have data with both azimuth and elevation and would like to plot a "spherical histogram".

Thanks

Amir

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

theta = 2*pi*rand(1,50);
rose(theta)

A wild guess:

[x,y,z]=sphere;
figure(1);surf(x,y,z);
figure(2);surf(x,y,z+rand(size(z))/5)

[Amir Patel]

Thanks for the reply Fangjun.

Unfortunately, the code you supplied only plots a regular 2D rose plot. I'm looking for something that does it in 3D.

Perhaps I can just plot it separately.

[Fangjun Jiang]

How is a 3D rose plot look like? Do you have a picture to show? I search the web and didn't find any.

[Sean de Wolski]

http://www.123rf.com/photo_9720688_illustration-of-a-skyscraper-on-green-sphere.html Like that only the buildings the whole way around?

I'm thinking this looks like a job for a bunch of patches.

[Fangjun Jiang]

@Sean, it is still a 2D graph though.

[Sean de Wolski]

I was just trying to get the idea across - in ML it would be a "rotateable" sphere with different height sky scrapers depending on what side you're viewing.

[Sean de Wolski]

So:

>> sphere

and then each little rectangle could be at different heights/colors etc.

[Fangjun Jiang]

I was thinking about the same thing. But that is up to the OP. I added that guess to my answer.