## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} trimesh (@var{tri}, @var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} trimesh (@var{tri}, @var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} trimesh (@var{tri}, @var{x}, @var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} trimesh (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} trimesh (@dots{})
## Plot a 3-D triangular wireframe mesh.
## 
## In contrast to @code{mesh}, which plots a mesh using rectangles,
## @code{trimesh} plots the mesh using triangles.
##
## @var{tri} is typically the output of a Delaunay triangulation over the
## grid of @var{x}, @var{y}.  Every row of @var{tri} represents one triangle
## and contains three indices into [@var{x}, @var{y}] which are the
## vertices of the triangles in the x-y plane.  @var{z} determines the
## height above the plane of each vertex.  If no @var{z} input is given then
## the triangles are plotted as a 2-D figure.
## 
## The color of the trimesh is computed by linearly scaling the @var{z} values
## to fit the range of the current colormap.  Use @code{caxis} and/or
## change the colormap to control the appearance.
##
## Optionally, the color of the mesh can be specified independently of @var{z}
## by supplying a color matrix, @var{c}.
##
## Any property/value pairs are passed directly to the underlying patch object.
##
## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created patch
## object.
## @seealso{mesh, tetramesh, triplot, trisurf, delaunay, patch, hidden}
## @end deftypefn

function h = trimesh (tri, x, y, z, varargin)

  if (nargin < 3)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargin == 3)
    triplot (tri, x, y);
  elseif (ischar (z))
    triplot (tri, x, y, z, varargin{:});
  else
    hax = newplot ();
    handle = patch ("Vertices", [x(:), y(:), z(:)], "Faces", tri,
                    "FaceColor", "none", "EdgeColor", __next_line_color__ (),
                    varargin{:});
    if (! ishold ())
      set (hax, "view", [-37.5, 30],
                "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
    endif
    if (nargout > 0)
      h = handle;
    endif
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! clf;
%! old_state = rand ('state');
%! restore_state = onCleanup (@() rand ('state', old_state));
%! rand ('state', 10);
%! N = 10;
%! x = 3 - 6 * rand (N, N);
%! y = 3 - 6 * rand (N, N);
%! z = peaks (x, y);
%! tri = delaunay (x(:), y(:));
%! trimesh (tri, x(:), y(:), z(:));