Save a Matlab movie to an AVI file:

 Simple example script to save a Matlab movie to an AVI file:

Z = peaks;

surf(Z); 

axis tight manual 

set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren'); 

v = VideoWriter('peaks.avi');

open(v);

for k = 1:20 

   surf(sin(2*pi*k/20)*Z,Z)

   frame = getframe(gcf);

   writeVideo(v,frame);

end

close(v);

Movies in Matlab

This script shows the very basics on how to generate a movie in Matlab

% Generate a simple movie: plot f(t, x) = sin(x - t) on (0, 2pi) for different t

for i = 1:25

 % Make a figure
 t = 0.1 * i;
 fplot(@(x) sin(x - t), [0 2*pi])
 
 % Store the figure as a frame in the movie
 M(i)=getframe;

end

% Play the movie ten times
movie(M,10)

Change Matlab-figures for print

If you use Matlab to generate EPS-files for inclusion in LaTeX-documents, you'll soon find that lines are too thin and text is too small. I use the following script to increase thickness and size in the current figure in Matlab:

linewidth = 2;
fontsize = 16;
fig = gcf;
h = findall(fig, 'Type', 'Text');
set(h, 'FontSize', fontsize)
h = findall(fig, 'Type', 'Axes');
set(h, 'FontSize', fontsize)
h = findall(fig, 'Type', 'Line');   
set(h, 'LineWidth', linewidth)