Why, when I use interpolated shading or print surfaces, does my graph look “blocky” when the graph looked fine on the screen?
The reason for this is that when you use shading interp , each pixel can have a different RGB value, but when you try to print this, each surface face is broken into 4×4 blocks and assigned a specific color to each of the blocks. To work around this problem, simply increase the number of faces on your surface and don’t use shading interp , use shading flat . To increase the number of surface faces, use griddata : [xi,yi,zi] = griddata(x,y,z,0:.1:10,0:.1:100) where x , y, and z are your original data, 0:.1:10 and 0:.1:100 are your new and increased ranges for x and y . Then use xi , yi , and zi in your surface command. For more information, see the MATLAB technical note written on this topic. It is located on the ftp site in pub/tech-support/tech-notes/gr1.txt.
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