Saint Louis University

School of Engineering and Architecture

Activity no. 1

Review of Scilab Command lines

Ellorin, Floreen Karl 11/10/2010

II. Problem
1. Review of Scilab command lines.

III. Solution
Programming
 Boolean - A boolean variable is %T (for "true") or %F (for "false").
These variables can be used to define matrices of booleans, with the usual
syntax. Boolean matrices can be manipulated as ordinary matrices for
elements extraction/insertion and concatenation. Note that other usual
operations ( +, *, -, ^, etc) are undefined for booleans matrices, three
special operators are defined for boolean matrices:
 Bool2s - convert boolean matrix to a zero one matrix.
 Break - keyword to interrupt loops
 Continue - keyword to pass control to the next iteration of a loop
 Find - find indices of boolean vector or matrix true elements
 Intpty - set interface argument passing properties

Elementary Functions
 adj2sp - converts adjacency form into sparse matrix.
 and - (&) logical and
 asin - sine inverse
 besselh - Bessel functions of the third kind (aka Hankel functions)
 besseli - Modified Bessel functions of the first kind (I sub alpha).
 besselj - Bessel functions of the first kind (J sub alpha).
 besselk - Modified Bessel functions of the second kind (K sub alpha).
 bessely - Bessel functions of the second kind (Y sub alpha).
 beta - beta function
 binomial - binomial distribution probabilities
 bloc2exp - block-diagram to symbolic expression
 bloc2ss - block-diagram to state-space conversion
 bsplin3val - 3d spline arbitrary derivative evaluation function
 cos - cosine function
 eval_cshep2d - bidimensional cubic shepard interpolation evaluation
 interp - cubic spline evaluation function
 interp1 - one_dimension interpolation function
 interp2d - bicubic spline (2d) evaluation function
 interp3d - 3d spline evaluation function
 interpln - linear interpolation
 intersect - returns the vector of common values of two vectors
 intsplin - integration of experimental data by spline interpolation
  inttrap - integration of experimental data by trapezoidal interpolation
 log - natural logarithm
 max - maximum
 meshgrid - create matrices or 3-D arrays
 min - minimum
 modulo - symetric arithmetic remainder modulo m
 pmodulo - positive arithmetic remainder modulo m
 sin - sine function
 solve - symbolic linear system solver
 tan - tangent
 vectorfind - finds in a matrix rows or columns matching a vector
Graphic library
 LineSpec - to quickly customize the lines appearance in a plot
 Matplot - 2D plot of a matrix using colors
 Sfgrayplot - smooth 2D plot of a surface defined by a function using colors
 addcolor - add new colors to the current colormap
 arc_properties - description of the Arc entity properties
 axes_properties - description of the axes entity properties
 axis_properties - description of the axis entity properties
 bar - bar histogram
 barh - horizontal display of bar histogram
 barhomogenize - homogenize all the bars included in the current working
axes
 clf - clear or reset the current graphic figure (window) to default values
 color - returns the color id of a color
 copy - copy a graphics entity.
 delete - delete a graphic entity and its children.
 draw - draw an entity.
 figure_properties - description of the graphics figure entity properties
 fplot2d - 2D plot of a curve defined by a function
 fplot3d - 3D plot of a surface defined by a function
 fplot3d1 - 3D gray or color level plot of a surface defined by a function
 getcolor - opens a dialog to show colors in the current colormap
 getfont - dialog to select font
 histplot - plot a histogram
 legends - draw graph legend
 loadplots - loads and formats saved old style plots
 move - move, translate, a graphic entity and its children.
 nf3d - rectangular facets to plot3d parameters
 nyquist - nyquist plot
 graphic - description of the graphic object editor capacities
 menus - description of the graphic object editor capacities
 plot - 2D plot
 plot2d - 2D plot
  plot3d - 3D plot of a surface
 plotframe - plot a frame with scaling and grids
 plzr - pole-zero plot
 polarplot - Plot polar coordinates
 rotate - rotation of a set of points
 scaling - affine transformation of a set of points
 secto3d - 3D surfaces conversion
 set - set a property value of a graphic entity object or of a User Interface
object.
 square - set scales for isometric plot (change the size of the window)
 surf - 3D surface plot
 xaxis - draw an axis
 zgrid - zgrid plot
 zoom_rect - zoom a selection of the current graphic figure

Programs:
1. dt=0.01;
t=-5:dt:5;
function ta=rect(t)
[m,n]=size(t);
for r=1:m
for c=1:n
if t(r,c)<-0.5 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
if t(r,c)>=-0.5 & t(r,c)<=0.5 then
ta(r,c)=1; end;
if t(r,c)>0.5 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
end;
end;
endfunction;

plot2d(t,rect(t));

2. dt=0.001;
t=-5:dt:5;
function ta=ramp(t);
[m,n]=size(t);
for r=1:m
for c=1:n
if t(r,c)<0 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
if t(r,c)>=0 & t(r,c)<1 then
ta(r,c)=t(r,c); end;
if t(r,c)>=1 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
 end;
end;
endfunction;
plot2d(t,ramp(t));

3. dt=0.001;
t=-5:dt:5;
function ta=tri(t)
[m,n]=size(t);
for r=1:m
for c=1:n
if t(r,c)<-1 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
if t(r,c)>-1 & t(r,c)<0 then
ta(r,c)=t(r,c)+1; end;
if t(r,c)>=0& t(r,c)<1 then
ta(r,c)=-t(r,c)+1; end;
if t(r,c)>=1 then
ta(r,c)=0; end;
end;
end;
endfunction;
plot2d(t,tri(t));

Results:
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IV. Comments
1. Most Scilab commands came from the root word of its function.
2. Different function signals can be done in scilab program.
3. Scilab can help in analysis of complex waveforms.