Quiver Plot Arrows too Wide
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Hello everyone, sorry I'm asking what seems like a rudimentary question but I've probably spent the better half of an hour online trying to solve my problem and I have not gotten anything to work. I'm making a quiver plot with specific vectors at specific locations using the plot function:
quiver(x,y,u,v)
unfortunately, my plot is what is shown below...
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/163244/image.png)
Those are arrows believe it or not. I can't seem to find a simple solution to making the arrow heads not so wide! My data in the x direction only varies from .6 to .7 but the x axis has been severely widened due to these wide arrows. Thank you for any help!
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Pablo Israel Morales Guzmán
on 4 May 2021
I think it has something to do with the values in both axes. They need to be have similar values in order for the arrows to display properly.
Joaquin Guillamon
on 21 Aug 2021
Hi Pablo, I'm writing regading a similar issue with the width of the arrows in the quiver plot you've got some years ago. Could you realized what was the problem?? I've tried a lot of different things but cannot make it look nice those arrows... If you know how to solve it, I appreciate any suggestion or help you can give me! Thanks!
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Andrew Newell
on 23 Apr 2017
quiver(...,scale)
In your example, you could try
scale=0.1;
quiver(x,y,u,v,scale)
and tweak scale to get what you want.
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Andrew Newell
on 24 Apr 2017
Working with Graphics Objects may help familiarize you with my use of h and the get/set interface. It certainly works in tests I have done.
Timothy Russell
on 26 May 2017
Another question I have about the quiver3 plot...I'm trying to graph a vector in 3D and want to save a picture of it at a certain angle but the arrow head doesn't show up well at that angle. Can I somehow rotate the vector so the arrowhead shows up? thanks, tim
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