Animation in matlab

I have an assignment to do which includes animation a stick man (stick figure) such that it can move its hands and legs and possibly also change the colour of it face. Is there a possibility to do this? Thanks for any help to be provided.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Yes. Create a bunch of lines using line(). Then modify their xdata and ydata properties to reflect new positions. You could do this with a for-loop and a pause() or even better with a timer().

[Abhishek]

How can I make it's face which need to be round or elliptical?

[Sean de Wolski]

You could use some rectangles:

doc rectangle

or change the markers on a line to be the shape/size/color/position you need. See:

doc linespec

If you have Simulink 3d, you could use some of those objects too, though I would guess that is outside the scope of your project.

[Abhishek]

Thank you very much for that. just one last question how can delete a line? i am basically trying to make its face go smaller and bigger so i want to delete the previous line(using line command as a point for his face and altering its marker size) so that only the new one is drawn?

Thanks

[Sean de Wolski]

h = line;

delete(h)

[Abhishek]

thank you vey much much appreciate your help and guidance.

[Image Analyst]

In R2014b there is an animatedLine function:

Create an animated line with two initial points.

x = [1 2];
y = [1 2];
h = animatedline(x,y);
Add points to the line in a loop to create an animation of a growing line. See Using animatedline Objects for more information.