How to increase elements of a vector without changing its plot?

Hello forum, I have a vector of x elements (57x1) that I would expand to a y-size vector (3000, for example) but without changing its plot (it is a particular stairs plot). Any idea on how to do it?

Answers (2)

What about a "nearest" interpolation?
Y = interp1(1:length(X), X, linspace(1, length(X), 3000), 'nearest')
Then Y contains only values of X, but sampled with a higher frequency. Another simpler approach:
t = round(linspace(1, length(X), 3000));
Y = X(t);
If you have
X = rand(57,1); %57 elements
if you want to have 3000 elements now,
X(end+1:end+3000,1) = rand(3000,1);
if you only want to plot the first 57 elements,
plot(X(1:57,1))

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But the shape changes. I tried to plot X(1:57,1) and X, there are two different shapes. In particular, I need this plot, that is defined by a vector of 57 elements (so my X is 57x1), but defined by a vector of 3000 elements (so X 3000x1 but the same plot!)
I'm not clear with what do you mean. Please show me how you create these vectors.
If you want to create more number of elements between the same limits, use linspace.
x_57 = linspace(1,30,57);
x_3000 = linspace(1,30,3000);
if you want to "append" more elements to the first vector ( x_57), then
x_57_new = [x_57 newVector]

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