Making Surface Plots From Scatter Data

How to turn a collection of XYZ triplets into a surface plot.

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How do you turn a collection of XYZ triplets into a surface plot? This is the most frequently asked 3D plotting question that I got when I was in Tech Support. This submission explains how.

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Zain Mecklai (2026). Making Surface Plots From Scatter Data (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/5105-making-surface-plots-from-scatter-data), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.0.1

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1.0.0.0