How to change the Head Properties of a vector?

I want to change the HeadProperties of a vector.

In the example below I show the problems:

SCRIPT:

clear all;
close all;
U=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
V=[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0];

x=[-0.35 -0.37 -0.38 -0.40 -0.40 -0.41 -0.41 -0.42 -0.42 -0.417];
y=[-0.11 -0.10 -0.09 -0.08 -0.06 -0.04 -0.02 0.001 0.024 0.047];
Vector=[U' V'  x' y'];

quiver(Vector(:,1), Vector(:,2), Vector(:,3), Vector(:,4), 0, 'LineWidth', 1, 'MaxHeadSize', .1);
axis([0 11 -0.2 0.2])

PROBLEMS

First, the vector heads are opened ones and I want to have solid heads.

Second, the head is not symmetric relative to solid line, but it changes its property with direction. I wand to have

symmetric sides for any vector direction.

Third, the function MaxHeadSize is not working and I don't know why.

I already look in the documentation for vector plot, quiver, etc... and did not find the instructions. I wonder if someone is familiar with this problem and could help me.

Thanks in advance for your attention

Emerson

[EDITED, JSimon, 20-Oct-2011 11:33 UTC, Code formatted]

[Jan]

Please use code formatting as explained at the "Markup help" link on this page.

About the useless "clear all" see: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/16484-good-programming-practice#answer_22301

Answer 1

[Jan]

Obviously the arrow head donot consider the AXES' DataAspectRatio. If you equilize the ratio of X- and Y-coordinates, the arrow heads are ok:

axis equal

But you want to set the axes limits manually. Therefore I recommend to use a smarter arrow drawer from the FEX:

• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/14056-arrow3-version-5
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/31473-line2arrow-add-an-arrowhead-to-a-plotted-line
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29487-2d-vector-field-visualization
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28324-3d-arrow-plot
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27475-arrow-plotter
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25372-marrow3-m-easy-to-use-3d-arrow
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/278-arrow-m
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23263-streakarrow3d
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12274-3d-arrow-with-many-colorparameter-options
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7470-plot-2d3d-vector-with-arrow
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6066-quiver3d
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3345-plot-arrowhead

The number of submissions implies, that your problem appeares frequently. The searching in the FEX is a good idea...