Surface and Mesh Plots

Representing gridded data as surface and mesh plots

Visualize 3-D data using surface and mesh plots. Create surfaces that are made of solid or semitransparent faces and face edges, and create mesh plots that show only the face edges.

Functions

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3-D Plots

`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
`fsurf`	Plot 3-D surface
`fmesh`	Plot 3-D mesh
`fimplicit3`	Plot 3-D implicit function
`pcolor`	Pseudocolor plot
`waterfall`	Waterfall plot
`ribbon`	Ribbon plot
`contour3`	3-D contour plot

Data

`peaks`	Peaks function
`cylinder`	Create cylinder
`ellipsoid`	Create ellipsoid
`sphere`	Create sphere

Customizations

`hidden`	Remove hidden lines from mesh 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.

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