Extract data for 3d plated grave

Hello everyone!

i just started learing mathlab. i did plot a simple 3d graph of circles by this code ;

clear;
clc;
figure(1)
r=3;
th=0:180/30:360;
Lgt=length(th);
for height=0:4:20;
    x=r*cos(th);
    y=r*sin(th);
    z= height* ones(r,Lgt);
    plot3(x,y,z)
    hold on 
    r=r+5;
end
hold off

when i came to extract the ploted graph 3d data i tried different way among them

ch=get(gca,'children')
X=get(ch,'Xdata')
Y=get(ch,'Ydata')
Z=get(ch,'Zdata')

which resulted in many many date, like repeated 20 20 20 many times while it should just gave me on raw of 20s one of 16s...0s

the same with x and y .

how to extract them correctly?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Rik]

Let's first run your code:

figure(1)
r=3;
th=0:180/30:360;
Lgt=length(th);
for height=0:4:20;
    x=r*cos(th);
    y=r*sin(th);
    z= height* ones(r,Lgt);
    plot3(x,y,z)
    hold on 
    r=r+5;
end
hold off

ch=get(gca,'Children')

ch = 
  93×1 Line array:

  Line
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X=get(ch,'XData')

X = 93×1 cell array
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As you can see, each circle in your plot is a separate line object. The get function will return a cell array with a cell element for each line. Since the x and y don't actually depend on your loop variable (and therefor could be computed outside the loop), you can just select one of them.

The ZData property contains 1 z value for every x and y. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to plot them. If you're only after a single value, you could either select 1 value at random, or use unique (which will allow you to detect multiple heigths).

Z=get(ch,'ZData');
for n=1:numel(Z)
    Z{n}=unique(Z{n});
end
Z

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[Mo Nabil]

it worked, thank you so much

[Rik]

You're welcome. If I solved your question, please consider marking my answer as accepted. If not, feel free to comment with your remaining issues.