SurfaceGraphics

SurfaceGraphics[array] is a representation of a three-dimensional plot of a surface, with heights of each point on a grid specified by values in array.

SurfaceGraphics[array, shades] represents a surface, whose parts are shaded according to the array shades.

SurfaceGraphics can be displayed using Show.

SurfaceGraphics has the same options as Graphics3D, with the following additions:

SurfaceGraphics does not support the options PolygonIntersections and RenderAll available for Graphics3D.

For SurfaceGraphics, the default setting for BoxRatios is BoxRatios -> {1, 1, 0.4}.

array should be a rectangular array of real numbers, representing values. There will be holes in the surface corresponding to any array elements that are not real numbers.

If array has dimensions , then shades must have dimensions .

The elements of shades must be GrayLevel, Hue or RGBColor directives, or SurfaceColor objects.

Graphics3D[SurfaceGraphics[ ... ]] can be used to convert a SurfaceGraphics object into the more general Graphics3D representation.

SurfaceGraphics is generated by Plot3D and ListPlot3D.

See The Mathematica Book: Section 1.9.7, Section 2.9.1 and Section 2.9.11.

See also: ListPlot3D, Plot3D, ContourGraphics, DensityGraphics.

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