Surface fit of a 3d scatter plot
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I have a m x 3 matrix, where the first column is the x coordinate, second is y, and third is z. I managed to create a 3D scatter plot using this data, but I can't get Matlab to draw a mesh surface that goes between the points. The relationships between the points are not mathematically controlled (they come from a biological assay), so the surface fitting would have to follow some sort of moving average or such. Is there anything out there that can do it for me?
Thanks in advance.
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Sean de Wolski
on 12 Jul 2011
doc griddata
No, more like:
x = your_matrix(:,1);
y = your_matrix(:,2);
z = your_matrix(:,3);
[xgrid ygrid] = meshgrid(1:5,1:10); %sample x and y ranges
z2 = griddata(x,y,z,xgrid(:),ygrid(:));
z2 = reshape(z2,size(xgrid));
You can also use TriScatteredInterp, though I haven't become a fan of it yet.
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Matt Severson
on 14 Apr 2016
Unless I'm misunderstanding the intentions, this is overly complicated. meshgrid will take an x and y vector as arguments and construct the grid from there.
[xgrid, ygrid] = meshgrid(x,y)
There's no need for the extra manipulation.
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