From: Emily on
Hi there,

I'm preparing a slide deck to demonstrate a nonlinear optimization to some non-technical folks. I wanted to show them an animation of a simple optimization on a bowled surface on a 3d plot, showing the iterative solutions, gradients, new search directions, etc. Anyone ever make anything like that? If so, any pieces of that that you could share?

Thanks,
Emily
From: Alan Weiss on
On 7/15/2010 3:10 PM, Emily wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm preparing a slide deck to demonstrate a nonlinear optimization to
> some non-technical folks. I wanted to show them an animation of a simple
> optimization on a bowled surface on a 3d plot, showing the iterative
> solutions, gradients, new search directions, etc. Anyone ever make
> anything like that? If so, any pieces of that that you could share?
>
> Thanks,
> Emily

If you have Optimization Toolbox, try entering
bandem
at the MATLAB command line. It doesn't give everything you want, but you
can use it as a starting point.

Alan Weiss
MATLAB mathematical toolbox documentation