semilogy

Semilog plot (y-axis has log scale).

📝 Syntax

• semilogy(X, Y)

• semilogy(X, Y, LineSpec)

• semilogy(Y)

• semilogy(Y, LineSpec)

• semilogy(ax, ...)

• semilogy(..., propertyName, propertyValue)

• go = semilogy(...)

📥 Input argument

• X - Linear scale coordinates: scalar, vector or matrix.

• Y - Log scale coordinates: scalar, vector or matrix.

• LineSpec - Line style, marker, and/or color: character vector or scalar string.

• ax - a scalar graphics object value: parent container, specified as a axes.

• propertyName - a scalar string or row vector character. see help of 'line' for property list.

• propertyValue - a value.

📤 Output argument

• go - a graphics object: line type.

📄 Description

semilogy(X, Y) plots data using a base 10 logarithmic scale for the y-axis and a normal (linear) scale for the x-axis.

semilogy has the exact same syntax as the plot command.

💡 Examples

f = figure();
x = 1:100;
y1 = x.^2;
y2 = x.^3;
semilogy(x,y1,'--',x,y2)
legend('x^2','x^3','Location','northwest')

f = figure();
y = [ 0.1    1     10
      0.2    2     20
      1.0    10    100
      10     100   1000
      1000   10000 100000];

semilogy(y)
grid on

🔗 See also

semilogx, line, plot, grid.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.0.0	initial version