## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} mesh (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} mesh (@var{z})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} mesh (@dots{}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} mesh (@var{hax}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} mesh (@dots{})
## Plot a mesh given matrices @var{x}, and @var{y} from @code{meshgrid} and
## a matrix @var{z} corresponding to the @var{x} and @var{y} coordinates of
## the mesh.  If @var{x} and @var{y} are vectors, then a typical vertex
## is (@var{x}(j), @var{y}(i), @var{z}(i,j)).  Thus, columns of @var{z}
## correspond to different @var{x} values and rows of @var{z} correspond
## to different @var{y} values.
##
## The color of the mesh is derived from the @code{colormap}
## and the value of @var{z}.  Optionally the color of the mesh can be
## specified independent of @var{z}, by adding a fourth matrix, @var{c}.
##
## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created
## surface object.
## @seealso{colormap, contour, meshgrid, surf}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function h = mesh (varargin)

  newplot ();

  tmp = surface (varargin{:});

  ax = get (tmp, "parent");

  set (tmp, "facecolor", "w");
  set (tmp, "edgecolor", "flat");

  if (! ishold ())
    set (ax, "view", [-37.5, 30],
         "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! clf ();
%! x = logspace (0,1,11);
%! z = x'*x;
%! mesh (x, x, z, z.^2);
%! xlabel xlabel
%! ylabel ylabel
%! zlabel "linear scale"

%!demo
%! clf ();
%! x = logspace (0,1,11);
%! z = x'*x;
%! mesh (x, x, z, z.^2);
%! set (gca, "zscale", "log")
%! xlabel xlabel
%! ylabel ylabel
%! zlabel "log scale"
%! if (strcmp (get (gcf, "__graphics_toolkit__"), "gnuplot"))
%!   title ({"Gnuplot: mesh color is wrong", "This a Gnuplot bug"})
%! endif