Matlab animation - how to from figures

[Moly]

Compared to the questions out there, my question seems VERY SIMPLE.

I have a code that generates a few graphs. Instead of super-imposing the graphs on one figure, I would like matlab to generate an animation of those graphs for me. I tried looking at help and my intution tells me that getframe is the way to go, but my technical capablities do not extend that far.

Any suggestion on how i can animate these figures? Here is my code


x0=0; xt=30; dt=.1;
L=(xt-x0)/dt+1;
n=10;

for k=1:6
t=5*k;
for i=1:L
summ=0;
x(i)=x0+(i-1)*dt;
for j=1:n
npi=j*pi;
a=2*(1-cos(npi))-npi^2*(1+cos(npi));
b= exp((-npi^2*t)/900);
c=sin(npi*x(i)/30);
summ=summ+((a-b)/j^3)*b*c;
end
u(i)=30-x(i)+(60/pi^3)*summ;
end
plot(x,u); hold on
end
title(' u(x,t) vs x for several values of t')

[shwaip]

do you want this to display in matlab, or with an external program?

[Moly]

both if possible.

[shwaip]

x0=0; xt=30; dt=.1;
L=(xt-x0)/dt+1;
n=10;


figure(1)
for k=1:6
t=5*k;
for i=1:L
summ=0;
x(i)=x0+(i-1)*dt;
for j=1:n
npi=j*pi;
a=2*(1-cos(npi))-npi^2*(1+cos(npi));
b= exp((-npi^2*t)/900);
c=sin(npi*x(i)/30);
summ=summ+((a-b)/j^3)*b*c;
end
u(i)=30-x(i)+(60/pi^3)*summ;
end
plot(x,u);
title(sprintf('u(x,%d)',t));
m(k)=getframe();
end
movie(m)
movie2avi(m,'movieout.avi','compression','none');


to play the movie in matlab, type: movie(m,# of times you want to repeat)

this also creates a movieout.avi file in the directory you run it in. you may need to tweak the args in movie2avi to make it look like you want

[Moly]

thank you so much for creating the movie.
can i control how long the frame is displayed so that i can see the transition a little slower?