3D Horizontal Bar Plots in MATLAB®
How to make 3D Horizontal Bar Plots in MATLAB® with Plotly.
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Create 3-D Horizontal Bar Graph
Load the data set count.dat, which returns a three-column matrix, count. Store Y as the first ten rows of count.
Create a 3-D horizontal bar graph of Y. By default, the style is detached.
load count.dat
Y = count(1:10,:);
figure
bar3h(Y)
fig2plotly(gcf, 'TreatAs', 'bar3h');
Specify Bar Width for 3-D Horizontal Bar Graph
Load the data set count.dat, which returns a three-column matrix, count. Store Y as the first ten rows of count.
Create a 3-D horizontal bar graph of Y and set the bar width to 0.5.
load count.dat;
Y = count(1:10,:);
width = 0.5;
figure
bar3h(Y,width)
title('Width of 0.5')
fig2plotly(gcf, 'TreatAs', 'bar3h');
3-D Horizontal Bar Graph with Grouped Style
Load the data set count.dat, which returns a three-column matrix, count. Store Y as the first ten rows of count.
Create a 3-D horizontal bar graph of Y and specify the style option as grouped.
load count.dat
Y = count(1:10,:);
figure
bar3h(Y,'grouped')
title('Grouped Style Option')
fig2plotly(gcf, 'TreatAs', 'bar3h');
3-D Horizontal Bar Graph with Stacked Option
Load the data set count.dat, which returns a three-column matrix, count. Store Y as the first ten rows of count.
Create a 3-D horizontal bar graph of Y and specify the style option as stacked.
load count.dat
Y = count(1:10,:);
figure
bar3h(Y,'stacked')
title('Stacked Style Option')
fig2plotly(gcf, 'TreatAs', 'bar3h');