How to improve the quality of 3d surfaces for publication purposes

Hi guys,

I want to enhance the quality of 3d surfaces so that they can be displayed in a presentation or be published. I want to make these surfaces look more beautiful, modern, etc. etc. I currently have the below. Can you find ways to improve on this? Thank you.

%Setting a white background and clean font
set(0,'DefaultFigureColor','White','defaultaxesfontsize',8,'DefaultAxesFontname','Calibri','DefaultTextFontName','Calibri')

s1 = surf(peaks);
colormap(winter(256)) 

%Setting the axes label, type, position, rotation, etc.
xlabel('X Label', 'fontweight', 'bold')
ylabel('Y Label', 'fontweight', 'bold')
zlabel('Z Label', 'fontweight', 'bold')

view (135,15);

yh = get(gca,'YLabel'); % Handle of the y label
set(yh, 'Units', 'Normalized')
pos = get(yh, 'Position');
set(yh, 'Position',pos.*[0.85,0.6,1],'Rotation',-10.9)
xh = get(gca,'XLabel'); % Handle of the x label
set(xh, 'Units', 'Normalized')
pos = get(xh, 'Position');
set(xh, 'Position',pos.*[1,1,1],'Rotation',11.1)
zh = get(gca,'ZLabel'); % Handle of the z label
set(zh, 'Units', 'Normalized')
pos = get(zh, 'Position');
set(zh, 'Position',pos.*[1.5,1,0],'Rotation',90)

title('Surface Example', 'FontSize', 12, 'fontweight', 'bold')

%Enhancing the surface characteristics
axis tight
camlight
lighting phong
shading interp
set(s1,'edgecolor',[0 0 0.4],'meshstyle','both','linewidth',.15);

%Exporting as a high resolution png
export_fig Matlab_Sample.png -m3 -q101 -nocrop

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Looks pretty darn good to me, but you might check out Waterloo that purports to give outstanding graphics: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/56890-publication-quality-graphics-in-matlab