How can I animate a plot?

Hello, I need some help.Since I am quite new to MATLAB, I will kindly ask you to not go hard on me, most of what I have learned I did by myself.So I have this plot and I want to make it move.After a couple of tries I think I ve got it, but it plots the same gif about 20 times.Also, it gives an error which states:

"Error using graphicsversion Input was not a valid graphics object

Error in getframe (line 51) usingMATLABClasses = ~graphicsversion(parentFig, 'handlegraphics');

Error in unda (line 26) getframe; "

What is wrong?Here is my code.Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I ve found out that only exiting the figure before the animation is complete yields the error.How to fix this?

   clear all; close all; clc;
psi0=1;
lambda=1;
vphi=1;
k=2*pi/lambda;
omega=k*vphi; T=2*pi/omega;
 [xx,yy]=meshgrid(linspace(-10,10,100),linspace(-10,10,100));
for t=0:0.005:2 %aici va fi ciclu in tema;
    x=linspace(-3*lambda,3*lambda,100);
    y=x;

    for ix=1:length(x)
        for iy=1:length(y)
            ro=sqrt(x(ix)^2+y(iy)^2);
            if(ro>lambda/20)
             psi(iy,ix)=psi0/ro*sin(omega*t-k*ro);
            end
        end
    end

    surf(xx,yy,psi);
    zlim([-10 10]);
    drawnow;
    getframe;

    end

    shading interp;
    colormap spring;

Answer 1

[Ingrid]

this code works fine when I run it. Looks pretty nice as well.

    clear all; close all; clc;
    psi0=1;
    psi = zeros(100,100); % initializing variable for better memory management
    lambda=1;
    vphi=1;
    k=2*pi/lambda;
    omega=k*vphi; T=2*pi/omega;
    [xx,yy]=meshgrid(linspace(-10,10,100),linspace(-10,10,100));

    x=linspace(-3*lambda,3*lambda,100); % does not need to be within loop because not changing
    y=x;

    for t=0:0.005:2 %aici va fi ciclu in tema;
        for ix=1:length(x)
            for iy=1:length(y)
                ro=sqrt(x(ix)^2+y(iy)^2);
                if(ro>lambda/20)
                    psi(iy,ix)=psi0/ro*sin(omega*t-k*ro);
                end
            end
        end

        surf(xx,yy,psi);
        zlim([-10 10]);
        shading interp;
        colormap spring;
        drawnow;

   end

but what are you trying to do? Do you want to save the movie to be played later outside of matlab? Than something like this might do the trick

clear all; close all; clc;
psi0=1;
psi = zeros(100,100); % initializing variable for better memory management
lambda=1;
vphi=1;
k=2*pi/lambda;
omega=k*vphi; T=2*pi/omega;
[xx,yy]=meshgrid(linspace(-10,10,100),linspace(-10,10,100));

x=linspace(-3*lambda,3*lambda,100); % does not need to be within loop because not changing
y=x;

idx = 1;
figure('DoubleBuffer','on','Renderer','painters');
for t=0:0.005:2 %aici va fi ciclu in tema;
    for ix=1:length(x)
        for iy=1:length(y)
            ro=sqrt(x(ix)^2+y(iy)^2);
            if(ro>lambda/20)
                psi(iy,ix)=psi0/ro*sin(omega*t-k*ro);
            end
        end
    end

      surf(xx,yy,psi);
      zlim([-10 10]);
      shading interp;
      colormap spring;
      drawnow;
      try
          F(idx) = getframe(gcf);
      catch
          % if frame was closed before animation was finished than need to
          % stop the code
          return
      end
      idx = idx + 1;
  end

movie(F)