syms animation in matlab

To create an animation in Matlab using symbolic variables syms, you can follow these steps:

  1. Define your symbolic variables using the syms function.
  2. Use a for loop to iterate over a range of values for the symbolic variables.
  3. Inside the loop, evaluate the symbolic expressions using the subs function and plot the result using the plot function.
  4. Use the pause function to insert a delay between each frame of the animation.

Here's an example code:

main.m
% Define symbolic variables
syms x y

% Define expressions to animate
f = x^2 + y^2;
h = sin(x) + cos(y);

% Define the range for your variables
x_range = linspace(-2, 2, 50);
y_range = linspace(-2, 2, 50);

% Create a figure window
figure;

% Loop over the range of variables
for i = 1:length(x_range)
    % Evaluate the expressions
    val_f = subs(f, [x, y], [x_range(i), y_range(i)]);
    val_h = subs(h, [x, y], [x_range(i), y_range(i)]);
    
    % Plot the result
    subplot(1,2,1);
    plot(x_range(1:i), val_f);
    title('f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2');
    xlabel('x'); ylabel('f(x,y)');
    
    subplot(1,2,2);
    plot(x_range(1:i), val_h);
    title('h(x,y) = sin(x) + cos(y)');
    xlabel('x'); ylabel('h(x,y)');
    
    % Pause to create animation effect
    pause(0.1);
end
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In this example, we define two symbolic expressions, f and h, and evaluate them over a range of symbolic variables x and y. We then plot the result of each expression as a function of x. The pause(0.1) function creates a pause of 0.1 seconds between each frame of the animation.

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