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Three-Dimensional Plotting

The MATLAB-style three-dimensional plotting commands are:

mesh (x y, z) Function File
Plot a mesh given matrices x and y from meshdom and a matrix z corresponding to the x and y coordinates of the mesh. If x and y are vectors then a typical vertex is (x(j) y(i), z(i,j)). Thus, columns of z correspond to different x values and rows of z correspond to different y values.

[xx yy] = meshgrid (x, y) Function File
[xx yy] = meshgrid (x) Function File
Given vectors of x and y coordinates return two matrices corresponding to the x and y coordinates of a mesh. The rows of xx are copies of x and the columns of yy are copies of y.

meshdom (x y) Function File
Given vectors of x and y coordinates return two matrices corresponding to the x and y coordinates of the mesh.

Note: this function is provided for compatibility with older versions of MATLAB. You should use meshgrid instead.