This code finds the maximum of the surface and then uses griddedInterpolant with the calculated ‘xv’ and ‘yv’ vectors to draw the interpolated line, following the ‘Z’ contours.
T = readtable('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/815814/full-nov26th.csv', 'VariableNamingRule','preserve')
rows = (T.(3)== 3);
T = T(rows, :);
% Define Variables
x = T.(1);
y = T.(2);
z = T.(4);
xi = linspace(min(x),max(x), 200);
yi = linspace(min(y),max(y), 200);
[X,Y] = ndgrid(xi,yi);
Z = griddata(x,y,z,X,Y);
zmix = find(Z == max(Z(:))) % There Is More Than One Maximum
Xc = X(zmix);
Yc = Y(zmix);
Zc = Z(zmix);
Xcm = mean(Xc);
Ycm = mean(Yc);
Zcm = mean(Zc);
xv = linspace(0, Xcm, 100);
yv = linspace(0, Ycm, 100);
Zi = griddedInterpolant(X,Y,Z);
zv = Zi(xv,yv);
figure
surf(X,Y,Z, 'EdgeColor','none', 'FaceAlpha',0.5);
hold on
stem3(Xcm,Ycm,Zcm,'-^r', 'filled')
plot3(xv, yv, zv, '-m', 'LineWidth',2)
hold off
colormap(turbo)
xlabel('X')
ylabel('Y')
zlabel('Z')
title('Original: Complete Surface & Requested Line')
figure
surf(X,Y,Z, 'EdgeColor','none', 'FaceAlpha',0.5);
hold on
stem3(Xcm,Ycm,Zcm,'-^r', 'filled')
plot3(xv, yv, zv, '-m', 'LineWidth',2)
hold off
colormap(turbo)
xlabel('X')
ylabel('Y')
zlabel('Z')
xlim([0 2*Xcm])
ylim([0 2*Ycm])
zlim([10 20])
view(290,30)
title('Detail: Zoomed Surface Section & Requested Line')
Choose different lime colours & colormap options to get the desired result.
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