Is the function Spotlight going to be available for the symbolic math toolbox?

Dear Sir/Madam, I am interested in the spotlight function, and I tried to make work the example 1 here: https://de.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad_ref/plot-spotlight.html?s_tid=srchtitle

to see how spotlight works. The example does not work. The syntax is also strange. Can you provide some clarification?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

That function was intended to be used in MuPAD notebooks not in the MATLAB Command Window or in the Live Editor. I believe, based on a quick skimming of that documentation page, that the closest equivalents in MATLAB graphics are the light function and the other functions on this documentation page.

I don't know how easy it would be to convert calls to the plot::spotlight function to equivalent calls to light, camlight, lightangle, and/or lighting.

Answer 2

[Luis]

Unfortunately, the current MATLAB light function does not generate the same light effect.

[Steven Lord]

I recommend contacting Technical Support with more details about the specific lighting effects you were able to generate using plot::spotlight and how you attempted to reproduce that behavior using the lighting-related functions. Support may be able to suggest a way to achieve an equivalent effect or may enter your use case into the enhancement database.