Generate animation(mp4) from for loop with plot

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This code produces/generates 6 plots A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C3. I am trying to produce 3 animations one for A1&A2, another for B1, B2 and a 3rd one for C1 & C3. Currently I have the 3 animations but in each one I see all 6 plots. Any help? My if conditions doesn't seem to work. Thank you.
CA = {'A' 1 0 3
'A' 1 2 3
'A' 1 3 3
'A' 2 0 5
'A' 2 2 7
'A' 2 3 8
'B' 1 0 3
'B' 1 1 3
'B' 1 3 3
'B' 2 0 12
'B' 2 2 1
'B' 2 3 3
'C' 1 0 2
'C' 1 1 1
'C' 1 2 3
'C' 2 0 4
'C' 2 1 3
'C' 2 2 6};
T1 = cell2table(CA,'VariableNames',{'X','W','Y','Z'});
[ix,ID] = findgroups(T1(:,1:2));
[U1,~,ixx] = unique(T1.X);
L = size(ID,1);
Names = unique(T1.X)
M = numel(U1);
for b = 1:length(Names)
for k = 1:L
figure(k) %subplot(L,1,k)
%
v = find(ix == k);
data=unique(T1.X(v))
Names(b)
ismember( Names(b), data )
if ismember( Names(b), data )
T1.X(v)
plot(T1.Y(v), T1.Z(v), '.-')
grid
xlabel('Y')
ylabel('Z')
title(sprintf('%s %d',ID{k,1}{:},ID{k,2}))
ylim([0 10])
GF = getframe(gcf) % Test
Vector(k) = getframe(gcf);
end
end
moviename = strcat('Level_1_Movie_', Names(b))
myWriter = VideoWriter(moviename{1},'MPEG-4');
myWriter.FrameRate = 20;
open(myWriter);
writeVideo(myWriter,Vector);
close(myWriter);
end
thanks to @Star Strider help on getting this far.
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Johan
Johan on 23 May 2022
I think the error comes from your Vector(k) statement, you don't reset it between each loop. Maybe this modifications would fix it ?
for b = 1:length(Names)
index = 1; %iniate a variable for Vector indexing
clear Vector %clear Vector to make sure you don't save leftover data in your movie
for k = 1:L
figure(k) %subplot(L,1,k)
v = find(ix == k);
data=unique(T1.X(v))
Names(b)
ismember( Names(b), data )
if ismember( Names(b), data )
T1.X(v)
plot(T1.Y(v), T1.Z(v), '.-')
grid
xlabel('Y')
ylabel('Z')
title(sprintf('%s %d',ID{k,1}{:},ID{k,2}))
ylim([0 10])
GF = getframe(gcf) % Test
Vector(k) = getframe(gcf);
end
end
moviename = strcat('Level_1_Movie_', Names(b))
myWriter = VideoWriter(moviename{1},'MPEG-4');
myWriter.FrameRate = 20;
open(myWriter);
writeVideo(myWriter,Vector);
close(myWriter);
end
Frederick Awuah-Gyasi
Frederick Awuah-Gyasi on 23 May 2022
Thanks @Johan Pelloux-Prayer. getting closer I guess. got one animation with only A1, A2 (which is good) with an error
Error using VideoWriter/writeVideo (line 414)
The 'cdata' field of FRAME must not be empty
Error in test (line 53)
writeVideo(myWriter,Vector);

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Frederick Awuah-Gyasi
Frederick Awuah-Gyasi on 23 May 2022
Fixed. Create a sub table for each set in column X and use the same code. Worked. Thanks all.
CA = {'A' 1 0 3
'A' 1 2 3
'A' 1 3 3
'A' 2 0 5
'A' 2 2 7
'A' 2 3 8
'B' 1 0 3
'B' 1 1 3
'B' 1 3 3
'B' 2 0 12
'B' 2 2 1
'B' 2 3 3
'C' 1 0 2
'C' 1 1 1
'C' 1 2 3
'C' 2 0 4
'C' 2 1 3
'C' 2 2 6};
T1 = cell2table(CA,'VariableNames',{'X','W','Y','Z'});
%[ix,ID] = findgroups(T1(:,1:2));
%L = size(ID,1);
Names = unique(T1.X)
for b = 1:length(Names)
SetA = T1(contains(T1.X,Names(b)),:)
[ix,ID] = findgroups(SetA(:,1:2));
L = size(ID,1);
for k = 1:L
figure(k) %subplot(L,1,k)
v = find(ix == k);
plot(SetA.Y(v), SetA.Z(v), '.-')
grid
xlabel('Y')
ylabel('Z')
title(sprintf('%s %d',ID{k,1}{:},ID{k,2}))
ylim([0 10])
GF = getframe(gcf) % Test
Vector(k) = getframe(gcf);
end
moviename = strcat('Level_1_Movie_', Names(b))
myWriter = VideoWriter(moviename{1},'MPEG-4');
myWriter.FrameRate = 20;
open(myWriter);
writeVideo(myWriter,Vector);
close(myWriter);
clear Vector
end
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Frederick Awuah-Gyasi
Frederick Awuah-Gyasi on 23 May 2022
@Star Strider can you check it out. Didn't want to celebrate alone. pls run it and see what our destination was. You did most of the work. Thank you.

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