MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

9 Examples of GUIDE UIs

Animation with Slider Controls in GUIDE

In this section...

“About the Example” on page 9- 68

“Design the 3-D Globe UI” on page 9- 69

“Graphics Techniques Used in the 3-D Globe UI” on page 9- 74

About the Example

This example shows how to create a UI with 3-D axes in which the Earth spins on its

axis. It accepts no inputs, but it reads a matrix of topographic elevations for the whole

Earth. The UI provides controls to perform these tasks:

• Start and stop the rotation.


• Change lighting direction.


• Display a latitude-longitude grid (or graticule).


• Save the animation as a movie in a MAT-file.


• Exit the application.