{"id":296,"date":"2008-08-13T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/08\/13\/matlab-basics-setting-edge-color-for-large-surface-plots\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:47:10","slug":"matlab-basics-setting-edge-color-for-large-surface-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/08\/13\/matlab-basics-setting-edge-color-for-large-surface-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: Setting edge color for large surface plots"},"content":{"rendered":"Often if you make a surface plot with SURF for a large dataset, it will appear all black because MATLAB is trying to draw all the edge lines.  You can stop these lines from obscuring your data by turning the edge color off:\r\n\r\n<code>a= peaks(1000);\r\nh = surf(a)\r\nset(h, 'edgecolor','none')<\/code>\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438016001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/08\/13\/matlab-basics-setting-edge-color-for-large-surface-plots\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/3a4d6e57-0ad2-4614-8482-af9dfe742ef9\/5b33e15c-73ed-4e20-a1c7-0723a6510f8c\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">0:46<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>Often if you make a surface plot with SURF for a large dataset, it will appear all black because MATLAB is trying to draw all the edge lines.  You can stop these lines from obscuring your data by&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/08\/13\/matlab-basics-setting-edge-color-for-large-surface-plots\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}