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ashim
ashim

Reputation: 25560

octave(matlab), how create plots without displaying?

The problem with octave(matlab). In the program I have loop where I plot data. In the end of each loop I save plots to disc. During this process octave draw each plot. It slows down the process. I need only plots to be saved on disc. If I could not display them,but just save, it would considerably accelerate the process. Is there way to draw plot to handler without displaying it? to draw I use scatter function.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 9369

Answers (3)

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 8091

Offscreen rendering is supported on GNU/Linux since GNU Octave 4.0 using OSMesa. So today there are basically two ways to get figure ("visible", "off");... print (...)working:

  1. If you not have a proprietary OpenGL driver but a MESA based driver like radeon, nouveau and so on (basically all free (as in freedom) drivers are based on Mesa) you can use OpenGL based toolkits (qt, fltk) and Octave will use OSMesa for printing.
  2. Using gnuplot: graphics_toolkit gnuplot as said before

Upvotes: 2

Anne van Rossum
Anne van Rossum

Reputation: 3149

This is not tested with matlab, and potentially only limited to octave.

Using f = figure('visible','off') will not work out of the box.

You need to select a proper graphics toolkit:

available_graphics_toolkits 
ans = 
{
  [1,1] = fltk
  [1,2] = gnuplot
}

The default is fltk which cannot write to file without displaying the plot. However, if you select gnuplot it will be able to write to file without displaying it first:

graphics_toolkit gnuplot

f = figure('visible','off')
plot(...)
axis(...)
filename=sprintf('output/%05d.png',t);                                                                          
print(filename);

It is not particularly fast, but it doesn't use screen buffers or captures the mouse, which happens if the plot needs to be visible.

Upvotes: 8

Oli
Oli

Reputation: 16035

As answered in this question, I would do:

f = figure('visible','off')

Upvotes: 5

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