{"id":1103,"date":"2013-05-17T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T18:14:27","slug":"polar-surface-plot-in-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2013\/05\/17\/polar-surface-plot-in-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar surface plot in MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"MATLAB does not have a polar surface plot built in.  You can use a normal surface plot if you convert your polar data into Cartesian with the pol2cart command.\r\n<p>\r\nWe also cover how to get rid of the edges on dense surface plots like this one by setting &#8216;edgecolor&#8217; to &#8216;none&#8217;.\r\n<p>\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877304451001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2013\/05\/17\/polar-surface-plot-in-matlab\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/837e661d-39aa-43cc-9b01-0cca291f3a63\/f6f26887-10af-4c42-a075-cc5743f77ebf\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">2:05<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>MATLAB does not have a polar surface plot built in.  You can use a normal surface plot if you convert your polar data into Cartesian with the pol2cart command.\r\n\r\nWe also cover how to get rid of the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2013\/05\/17\/polar-surface-plot-in-matlab\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}