Surface and Mesh Plots

Representing gridded data as surface and mesh plots

Functions

`surf`	Surface plot
`surfc`	Contour plot under surface plot
`surface`	Primitive surface plot
`surfl`	Surface plot with colormap-based lighting
`surfnorm`	Surface normals
`mesh`	Mesh surface plot
`meshc`	Contour plot under mesh surface plot
`meshz`	Mesh surface plot with curtain
`hidden`	Remove hidden lines from mesh plot
`fsurf`	Plot 3-D surface
`fmesh`	Plot 3-D mesh
`fimplicit3`	Plot 3-D implicit function

`waterfall`	Waterfall plot
`ribbon`	Ribbon plot
`contour3`	3-D contour plot

`peaks`	Example function of two variables
`cylinder`	Create cylinder
`ellipsoid`	Create ellipsoid
`sphere`	Create sphere
`pcolor`	Pseudocolor plot
`surf2patch`	Convert surface data to patch data

Properties

Surface Properties	Chart surface appearance and behavior
Surface Properties	Primitive surface appearance and behavior
FunctionSurface Properties	Surface chart appearance and behavior
ImplicitFunctionSurface Properties	Implicit surface chart appearance and behavior
ParameterizedFunctionSurface Properties	Parameterized surface chart appearance and behavior

Topics

Creating 3-D Plots

This example shows how to create a variety of 3-D plots in MATLAB®.

Changing Surface Properties

This example shows how to get properties of a surface plot in MATLAB® and change the property values to customize your plot.

Representing Data as a Surface

You can visualize matrix data on a rectangular grid using surface plots.

How Surface Plot Data Relates to a Colormap

Change the relationship between surface plot data and the colormap.

Related Information

Interpolation

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Displaying Topographic Data

Several ways to represent the Earth's topography. The data used in this example are available from the National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA US Department of Commerce under data announcement 88-MGG-02.

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