# MATLAB: How to create an animated plot

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I'm trying to combine 24 plots (each plot representing the density of people in a certain area) into one figure (making some what of an animated plot). But instead of my 24 plots being displayed one after the other in the same figure with a short pause in between each one, I end up with 24 separate figures. How do I combine them and make an animated plot? This is the code I have at the moment. Trying to combine them so I can see how density changes after every hour.
for k = 1:24  for i = 1:30  for j = 1:30      hrVal = zeros(1,1);       if ~isempty(gridPax{i,j})          hrVal = log(gridPax{i,j}(k)+1);          end        hrPax{i,j} = hrVal;    end endx = linspace(103.6,104,30);y = linspace(1.5,1.25,30); [X,Y] = meshgrid(x,y);  Z = cell2mat(hrPax);  % interpolate to a finer grid  newG = 200; xq = linspace(103.6,104,newG); xy = linspace(1.5,1.25,newG);  [Xq,Yq] = meshgrid(xq,xy); Zq = interp2(X,Y,Z,Xq,Yq,'cubic'); figure('Name', 'Pax per Hour'); hold on; surf(Xq,Yq,Zq); xlabel 'Latitude'; ylabel 'Longitude'; zlabel 'No. of Pax'; axis tight colormap default end

figure('Name', 'Pax per Hour');hold on;for k = 1:24    for i = 1:30        for j = 1:30            hrVal = zeros(1,1);            if ~isempty(gridPax{i,j})                hrVal = log(gridPax{i,j}(k)+1);            end            hrPax{i,j} = hrVal;        end    end    x = linspace(103.6,104,30);    y = linspace(1.5,1.25,30);    [X,Y] = meshgrid(x,y);    Z = cell2mat(hrPax);    % interpolate to a finer grid    newG = 200;    xq = linspace(103.6,104,newG);    xy = linspace(1.5,1.25,newG);    [Xq,Yq] = meshgrid(xq,xy);    Zq = interp2(X,Y,Z,Xq,Yq,'cubic');      surf(Xq,Yq,Zq);      xlabel 'Latitude'; ylabel 'Longitude'; zlabel 'No. of Pax';      axis tight      colormap default      drawnow  end