polar

Purpose

Polar coordinate plot.

Synopsis

polar(theta,rho)
polar(theta,rho,'linetype')

Description

polar(theta,rho) makes a polar coordinate plot of the angle theta, in radians, versus the radius rho.

polar(theta,rho,'linetype') specifies a one-, two-, or three-character line style string made from the characters listed under the plot command.

Examples

A simple polar plot:

t = 0:.01:2*pi;
polar(t,sin(2*t).*cos(2*t))
          

See Also

compass, plot, rose

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