How to MATLAB scatter3, plot3 speed discrepencies
This is about how MATLAB can take very different times to plot the same thing — and why. I generate 10000 points in 3D space: X = rand(10000, 1); Y = rand(10000, 1); Z = rand(10000, 1); I then used one of four different methods to plot this, to create a plot like so: I closed all figures and cleared the workspace between each run to try to ensure fairness. Bulk plotting using scatter3: >> tic; scatter3(X, Y, Z); drawnow; toc Elapsed time is 0.815450 seconds. Individual plotting using scatter3: >> tic; hold on; for i = 1:10000 scatter3(X(i), Y(i), Z(i), 'b'); end hold off; drawnow; toc Elapsed time is 51.469547 seconds. Bulk plotting using plot3: >> tic; plot3(X, Y, Z, 'o'); drawnow; toc Elapsed time is 0.153480 seconds. Individual plotting using plot3: >> tic; hold on for i = 1:10000 plot3(X(i), Y(i), Z(i), 'o'); end drawnow; toc Elapsed time is 5.854662 seconds. What is it that...