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David Doria wrote:

> Is there no way to show something that you might show with imshow() but on a specific plane in 3d?

No. image objects cannot have Z components.

Try this instead:

surf(Z*ones(size(TheImage)),TheImage,'EdgeColor','none')

where Z is the constant Z that you want for the image.