1. Prepare your data.

Z = peaks(20);

2. Select window and position plot region within window.

figure(1);subplot(2,1,2)

3. Call 3-D graphing function.

h = surf(Z);

4. Set colormap and shading algorithm.

colormap hot
shading interp
set(h,'EdgeColor','k')

5. Add lighting.

light('Position',[-2,2,20])
lighting phong
material([0.4,0.6,0.5,30])
set(h,'FaceColor',[0.7 0.7 0],...
      'BackFaceLighting','lit')

6. Set viewpoint.

view([30,25])
set(gca,'CameraViewAngleMode','Manual')

7. Set axis limits and tick marks.

axis([5 15 5 15 -8 8])
set(gca,'ZTickLabel','Negative||Positive')

8. Set aspect ratio.

set(gca,'PlotBoxAspectRatio',[2.5 2.5 1])

9. Annotate the graph with axis labels, legend, and text.

xlabel('X Axis')
ylabel('Y Axis')
zlabel('Function Value')
title('Peaks')

10. Print graph.

set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto')
print -dps2