Animating collision GUI - changing position

Hi! we have a project to create a GUI of our choice and our group is doing a collisions. We are trying to move the two circles plotted based on the velocity inputted by the user. It has been suggested that we create a position vector and update it in a loop based on the velocity but I am just a little confused about how to go about this. Any thoughts??

Answer 1

[Sam McDonald]

There are a few techniques for creating animations in MATLAB. Refer to these links for examples:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/animation-techniques.html https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/animatedline.html#buhnqpr-1

For your specific case, updating a position vector according to the time that has passed is a good approach. MATLAB has a timer object available for use, or you could simply use the "pause" function to get started. Here are some more useful links:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/pause.html?s_tid=srchtitle https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/use-a-matlab-timer-object.html?s_tid=srchtitle https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/timer-class.html