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3-D Visualization
Visualization is the use of graphical representations of information to make certain characteristics or values more apparent. Visualization conveys information by employing geometric forms (e.g., surfaces, solids) and colors that are mapped to data values in particular ways. The geometric forms may represent real-life objects, such as an airplane or wave guide, or may be graphical elements that indicate data values, such as streamlines or slice planes.
This collection of topics introduces visualization techniques and illustrates the application of these techniques to specific types of data. The following list summarizes the contents of this collection:
- Creating 3-D Graphs - includes information about 3-D line and surface graphs.
- Defining the View - discusses how to set the view point and control the aspect ratio and projection type. This section describes how to compose the scene you want to display.
- Lighting as a Visualization Tool - illustrates the various lighting effects you can employ to add realism and improve shape definition in 3-D views.
- Transparency - describes how to make objects translucent.
- Creating 3-D Models with Patches - shows how to use MATLAB patch objects to define 3-D shell representations of physical shapes. Patches support x-, y-, and z-coordinates as well as face and vertex data specification.
- Volume Visualization Techniques - employs a variety of MATLAB's visualization techniques to display both scalar and vector volume data.
Related Information
The following sections provide information that is useful in understanding the techniques described in this section:
- Graphics - covers the fundamentals of plotting in MATLAB. It discusses MATLAB's standard plotting routines (line plots, pie charts, histograms, etc.) as well as graph formatting and annotation. In addition, this section describes the graphics object hierarchy, manipulating object properties, and the use of important figure and axes properties.
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