How to color Gaussian 3D plot with shiny texture?

Hi,

I tried to plot the Gaussian peak with Matlab.

From the wikimedia, I found the Matlab code for Gaussian like below:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaussian_2d.png#file

[X, Y] = meshgrid(-30:.1:30, -30:.1:30);
Z = exp(-X.^2-Y.^2);
surf(X,Y,Z);
shading interp;
view(-56,56)

And this gave me the plot like below.

Is there any way to make this plot with shiny material like this?:

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

[X, Y] = meshgrid(-3:0.1:+3);
Z = exp(-X.^2-Y.^2);
surf(X,Y,Z,'FaceColor',[0.6    0.1800    0.700],'EdgeColor','none');
light(Position=[2,-3 0.5]);
material shiny
view(-56,56)

[wndud77]

Thanks much for your prompt reply!

It worked after I changed the fourth line to

light("Position",[2 -3 0.5]);

[Matt J]

Glad it worked, but you should upgrade your Matlab version if you can.

[wndud77]

Agree. Mine is R2020b so I thought probably my version is too old for your code.