Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming Fundamentals

• Object-Oriented Programming

• 3-D Visualization

• Creating 3-D Graphs

Typical 3-D Graph

• Line Plots of 3-D Data

• Representing a Matrix as a Surface

• Coloring Mesh and Surface Plots

• Defining the View

• Viewing Overview

• Setting the Viewpoint with Azimuth and Elevation

Defining Scenes with Camera Graphics

• View Control with the Camera Toolbar

Camera Graphics Functions

• Example - Dollying the Camera

• Example - Moving the Camera Through a Scene

• Low-Level Camera Properties

• Understanding View Projections

• Understanding Axes Aspect Ratio

• Manipulating Axes Aspect Ratio

• Lighting as a Visualization Tool

• Lighting Overview

• Selecting a Lighting Method

• Reflectance Characteristics of Graphics Objects

• Manipulating Transparency

• Making Objects Transparent

• Mapping Data to Transparency - Alpha Data

• Selecting an Alphamap

• Creating 3-D Models with Patches

• Introduction to Patch Objects

• Multifaceted Patches

• Modifying Data on Existing Patch Objects

• Specifying Patch Coloring

• Interpreting Indexed and Truecolor Data

• Volume Visualization Techniques

• Overview of Volume Visualization

• Techniques for Visualizing Scalar Volume Data

• Exploring Volumes with Slice Planes

• Connecting Equal Values with Isosurfaces

• Isocaps Add Context to Visualizations

• Visualizing Vector Volume Data

• Example - Stream Line Plots of Vector Data

• Example - Displaying Curl with Stream Ribbons

• Example - Displaying Divergence with Stream Tubes

• Example - Creating Stream Particle Animations

• Example - Vector Field Displayed with Cone Plots

• Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Handle Graphics Property Browser

• External Interfaces

• C and Fortran API Reference

• Release Notes

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3-D Visualization

This section discusses visualization techniques and illustrates the application of these techniques to specific types of data.

Creating 3-D Graphs	3-D line and surface graphs
Defining the View	Control camera, zooming, projection, compose a scene, control the aspect ratio of the axes
Lighting as a Visualization Tool	Lighting effects you can employ to add realism and improve shape definition in 3-D views
Manipulating Transparency	Various techniques for making objects translucent
Creating 3-D Models with Patches	Define 3-D shell representations of physical shapes using patch objects
Volume Visualization Techniques	Visualize gridded 3-D volume data (both scalar and vector)

Related Information

The following section provides information that is useful in understanding the techniques described in this section.

MATLAB^® plotting tools, standard plotting functions, graph printing and annotation. Also graphic object properties.

Creating 3-D Graphs

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