how to color a surface plot
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I have plotted a surface plot using meshgrid as shown below
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/152162/image.jpeg)
However I want to change the color to the ones shown in the example on mathworks: http://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/learn_matlab/creating-mesh-and-surface-plots.html, I have surf too, but it didn't work. Can anyone please help me?
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Star Strider
on 25 Nov 2015
My guess is that you are referring to the plot in the Colored Surface Plots section of that documentation, created by this code:
[X,Y] = meshgrid(-8:.5:8);
R = sqrt(X.^2 + Y.^2) + eps;
Z = sin(R)./R;
surf(X,Y,Z)
colormap hsv % <— Specify ‘colormap’ To Override Default
colorbar
You need to add this line:
colormap hsv
to your code to get the same colormap as in the example plot.
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Star Strider
on 28 Nov 2015
My pleasure.
I don’t have your data, so you will have to do the experiment and tell me the result.
See if adding:
axis tight
after the plot does what you want.
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