Is there a way that MATLAB figures saved as .fig files can be viewed independently of MATLAB?

Suppose I create a figure with plot() or semilogx() or even with surf() and plot3(), and I save that figure as a .fig file. Some of these .fig files are quite large, several MB.

Could MathWorks consider a feature where a figure could be stored as an .exe file with just enough code in it to draw out and display the figure (and to zoom in, out, rotate, etc) without MATLAB and without the recipient having MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can do this with MATLAB Compiler, build an exe the just loads and displays figures.

There might potentially be some ability to display using Octave, but I do not know how advanced that is; I do not know if Octave has implemented any of the graphics operations since R2014b. (I have rarely used Octave.)