MATLAB: How can comet3 be modified to have a disappearing tail

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i am not sure how to get the lines which are left behind in comet3 to disappear as the comet moves forward. My goal is to have it repeat a full run a few times and delete the tail as it travels.
i see the section marked 'clean up the tail' but i don't know what to add to that to actually clean it up… and thoughts?

Best Answer

edit comet3
change all the erasemodes to background, it's in the line functions, example:
'erase','none' -> 'erase','background'
Now change the function name to comet33 on the first line and save it as comet33.m