This is an example of how to produce a uniform lighting across the surfaces in MATLAB®. This lighting is good for viewing faceted surfaces.
Read about the light and lighting functions in MATLAB® documentation.
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% Create a grid of x and y points points = linspace(-2, 0, 20); [X, Y] = meshgrid(points, -points); % Define the function Z = f(X,Y) Z = 2./exp((X-.5).^2+Y.^2)-2./exp((X+.5).^2+Y.^2); % "flat" lighting is good for faceted surfaces surf(X, Y, Z); view(30, 30); shading faceted; light; lighting flat; title('lighting flat', 'FontName', 'Courier', 'FontSize', 14);
