How to plot multiple lines with different markers

Question

I would like to plot multiple lines with MATLAB and do it so, that markers would be different in every line. I know that with colours this would be achieved with ColorSet = hsv(12);. Is there some as simple as this method for markers?

Answer 1

Well, I am not aware of a built-in functionality of MATLAB to do so, but I do the following. I create my own cell:

markers = {'+','o','*','.','x','s','d','^','v','>','<','p','h'}

and then access it this way:

markers{mod(i,numel(markers))+1}

I also created a function, getMarker, that does that and that I added to the path of MATLAB so that I can access it in all my scripts.

Answer 2

x = linspace(0, 2*pi);
y = cos(bsxfun(@plus, x(1:15:end), x'));
figure
m = {'+','o','*','.','x','s','d','^','v','>','<','p','h'};
set(gca(), 'LineStyleOrder',m, 'ColorOrder',[0 0 0], 'NextPlot','replacechildren')
plot(x, y)