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gibson:teaching:fall-2014:math445:lecture16-diary [2014/11/18 07:24]
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 The previous plots were all looking straight down at the (x,y) plane, with the value of z = f(x,y) encoded as a color. The ''​surf''​ function will plot z = f(x,y) in 3D, as a surface of height z over the (x,y) plane. ​ The previous plots were all looking straight down at the (x,y) plane, with the value of z = f(x,y) encoded as a color. The ''​surf''​ function will plot z = f(x,y) in 3D, as a surface of height z over the (x,y) plane. ​
  
 +<code matlab>
 surf(X,Y,Z) % draw z=f(x,y) as a surface over x,y surf(X,Y,Z) % draw z=f(x,y) as a surface over x,y
 xlabel('​x'​);​ ylabel('​y'​);​ zlabel('​z'​) xlabel('​x'​);​ ylabel('​y'​);​ zlabel('​z'​)
 axis equal; axis tight axis equal; axis tight
 +</​code>​
  
 It's also possible to draw more complicated surfaces (surfaces that are not simple graphs of the form It's also possible to draw more complicated surfaces (surfaces that are not simple graphs of the form
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-% quiver plot 
-% used to show vector fields 
-load y.asc 
-load x.asc 
-load vx.asc 
-load vy.asc 
-clf() 
-quiver(x,​y,​vx,​vy); ​ 
-axis equal 
-axis tight 
-xlabel('​x'​);​ ylabel('​y'​);​ 
-title('​vector field vx,vy over plane x,y') 
- 
- 
-% subplots 
-% make an array of plots within a figure window 
-clf() 
-subplot(2,​2,​1) % 1st subplot in 2 x 2 array 
-quiver(x,​y,​vx,​vy);​ 
-axis equal 
-axis tight 
-subplot(2,​2,​2) % 2nd subplot in 2 x 2 array 
  
-surfc(X,​Y,​Z,​C);​ axis equal 
-subplot(2,​2,​3) % 2nd subplot in 2 x 2 array 
-surf(X,​Y,​Z,​Z);​ axis equal 
-subplot(2,​2,​4) % 4th 
-x = linspace(0,​pi,​20);​ 
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