Partial transparent surface plot
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Rafael Kübler
on 9 Mar 2017
Edited: Massimo Zanetti
on 9 Mar 2017
Hello together,
I'm trying to plot a surface where all points with a z value between -0.5 and 0.5 are 100% transperent. I've tried to make all these values to NaN (not a number). This works, so far, that the surface looks like expected, but i can not use the data cursor. When using the data cursor matlab crashes. Is there another way of makeing areas transparent or does anyone know, why matlab crashes?
Thank you for your help.
Rafael
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Massimo Zanetti
on 9 Mar 2017
Edited: Massimo Zanetti
on 9 Mar 2017
Play with Chart Surface Options: https://it.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/chartsurface-properties.html
You can set AlphaData to 0 where you don't want to see any colour. Here is an example hiding values of a trigonometric function between 0 and 1:
[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:0.5:10,1:20);
Z = sin(X) + cos(Y);
s = surf(X,Y,Z);
s.AlphaData = (Z<=0) | (Z>=1);
s.FaceColor = 'texturemap';
s.FaceAlpha = 'texturemap';
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Massimo Zanetti
on 9 Mar 2017
Edited: Massimo Zanetti
on 9 Mar 2017
Are you just visualizing the image or trying to print it using print? Please, post some of your code.
Note: The 'zbuffer' option has been removed. Use 'opengl' or 'painters' instead.
What Matlab version are you using?
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