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In Matlab, how do I plot irregularly spaced data?

To plot irregularly spaced data in Matlab, use the griddata command.

Assume that a is a matrix with three columns, and that each row gives the three coordinates for one data point. The example below plots a surface that passes through each of the points given by a:

xmin = min(a(:,1)); ymin = min(a(:,2)); xmax = max(a(:,1)); ymax = max(a(:,2)); xi = xmin : 0.02*(xmax-xmin):xmax; yi = ymin : 0.02*(ymax-ymin):ymax; zi = griddata(a(:,1), a(:,2), a(:,3), xi', yi); surf(xi, yi, zi)

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Last modified on October 01, 2009.

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