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Z = peaks; Z = peaks(n); Z = peaks(V); Z = peaks(X,Y); peaks; peaks(N); peaks(V); peaks(X,Y); [X,Y,Z] = peaks; [X,Y,Z] = peaks(n); [X,Y,Z] = peaks(V);
peaks is a function of two variables, obtained by translating and scaling Gaussian distributions, which is useful for demonstrating mesh, surf, pcolor, contour, and so on.
Z = peaks; returns a 49-by-49 matrix.
Z = peaks(n); returns an n-by-n matrix.
Z = peaks(V); returns an n-by-n matrix, where n = length(V).
Z = peaks(X,Y); evaluates peaks at the given X and Y (which must be the same size) and returns a matrix the same size.
peaks(...) (with no output argument) plots the peaks function with surf.
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(...); returns two additional matrices, X and Y, for parametric plots, for example, surf(X,Y,Z,del2(Z)). If not given as input, the underlying matrices X and Y are
[X,Y] = meshgrid(V,V)
where V is a given vector, or V is a vector of length n with elements equally spaced from -3 to 3. If no input argument is given, the default n is 49.
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