How to change background color of a surf

Hello everyone, I have a surface obtained with the surf command. I would like to extract an image from it. In particular I would like to set a colored background, without the axis visible.

The only thing I know to achieve this stuff is:

surf(x,y,z)
view(2)
ax = gca; set(ax,'Color','k');

The problem is that if I remove the axis with:

ax.Visible = 'off' 

the background color disappear.

I woould like to obtain the same image, without the axes.

[Ameer Hamza]

Can you show an image of what type of output image you want?

[Carmine Buonagura]

Of course, I will edit my question

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Just turn the visibility of both axis off

ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
ax.YAxis.Visible = 'off';

[Carmine Buonagura]

The problem now is that just on axis cancel out. I don't know why, but the y-axis is still there.

[Ameer Hamza]

Can you show the code. I guess there might be two axes on your figure?

[Carmine Buonagura]

[x,y,z] = sphere(100);

figure
h = surf(x,y,z,'FaceColor','w','FaceAlpha',1);
set(h,'edgecolor','none');
axis equal
view([1 0 0])
ax = gca; set(ax, 'Color','k'); 
ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off'; ax.YAxis.Visible = 'off';
axis([-200 200 -200 200 -200 200])
light('Position',[0 -1 0],'Style','infinite','Color','w');
lighting gouraud
h.BackFaceLighting = 'unlit';
h.DiffuseStrength = .6;
h.SpecularStrength = 0;
h.AmbientStrength = .07;

[Ameer Hamza]

The way you specified the view(), these are Y and Z axis

ax.YAxis.Visible = 'off'; ax.ZAxis.Visible = 'off';

[Carmine Buonagura]

aaaaah yes, thank you a lot

[Ameer Hamza]

I am glad to be of help! :)

Answer 2

[KSSV]

pcolor(x,y,z)
axis off 
% box on 
% shading interp 
% colorbar

[Carmine Buonagura]

x,y and z are the coordinates for the surface. This function doesn't allow me to generate a black background