In signal processing, when you make a stem plot to show an output, does it matter if the circles on your lollipops are colored in or left as open circles? Is there a significance to filling them in or leaving them open? Solution stem(X,Y) plots X versus the columns of Y. X and Y are vectors or matrices of the same size. Additionally, X can be a row or a column vector and Y a matrix with length(X) rows. stem(X,Y,\'fill\') specifies whether to color the circle at the end of the stem. So really it doesn\'t matter if the circles on lollipops are colored or left as open circle. There is no significance to filling them in or leaving them open. Moreover you can also change the type of \"lollipops\". .