Surface: Face (MATLAB)

Surface: Face

A color name or RGB color specification.
No color (none) - Faces are not drawn.
Faceted CData (flat) - Each face is a single, solid color determined.
Blended CData (interp) - Interpolation of the vertex color values determines the color of each face.
Mapped CData (texturemap) - Map an image onto the surface. See Texture Mapping.

See Coloring Mesh and Surface Plots for a general discussion of how MATLAB colors surfaces.

No shading (none) - Lights do not affect the surface face.
Faceted (flat) - Uniform lighting across each face of surface.
Rounded (gouraud) - Linear interpolation of lighting calculated at vertices.

- Smoother rounded (phong) - Interpolate vertex normals across faces. Produces smoothest results.

See Selecting a Lighting Method for examples of these lighting methods.

Alpha - Face transparency. Numeric value between 0 and 1 or a mapping from alpha data. (FaceAlpha)

Opaque (1.0) - No transparency.
Transparent (0.5) - All surface faces are translucent. Half way between opaque and clear.
Clear (0.0) - Surface faces are completely clear and invisible.
Faceted AlphaData (flat) - Each face has a single alpha value determined by AlphaData.
Blended AlphaData (interp) - Alpha values are determined by interpolating vertex AlphaData across the face.
Mapped AlphaData (texturemap) - Use transparency on a texture mapped surface. FaceColor must also be set to texture and the size of AlphaData must equal the size of CData.

See Transparency for general information about using transparency.

Set wireframe (hide) - Mesh with opaque face color set to axes color. Edge lines colored
Set wireframe - Mesh with invisible faces.
Set point cloud (hide) - Display a dot at each vertex and hide points obscured by surface.
Set point cloud - Display a dot at all vertices.
Set solid - Display surface faces with interpolated coloring and edges with black lines.

See Hidden Line Removal and mesh for more information on mesh plots.