Explanation of surf plot
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Louise Wilson
on 28 Jul 2023
Edited: Cris LaPierre
on 28 Jul 2023
I used the following code to plot some example data:
A(1,1:51)=0:1:50;
A(2,2:51)=1;
A(3,2:51)=2;
A(4,2:51)=3;
A(5,2:51)=4;
A(6,2:51)=5;
A(7,2:51)=6;
A(8,2:51)=7;
A(9,2:51)=8;
A(10,2:51)=9;
A(1:10,1)=[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9];
f=A(1,2:51);
t=A(2:10,1);
d=(A(2:end,2:end))';
surf(t,f,d,'EdgeColor','none');
view(0,90)
xlim([0 10])
colorbar
I'd like to understand how I get the code to plot all of the data.
There are nine different values in matrix 'A', but only 1-8 are plotted. Why is that?
Thanks!
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Cris LaPierre
on 28 Jul 2023
Edited: Cris LaPierre
on 28 Jul 2023
What if we simplify the code?
X = 0:9;
Y = 0:50;
A = ones(51,10) .* X;
surf(X,Y,A,'EdgeColor','none');
colorbar
surf colors the face between points. So if you have 10 point along x, there are 9 faces (0-1, 1-2, ..., 8-9).
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Joel Hottinger
on 28 Jul 2023
I think the key here is the between the points line. This becomes very apparent if we have a 2x2 matrix:
a = [1,1;2,2];
surf(a)
view(2)
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