How can I make points show through a surface plot?
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I have code that makes a centerline (left) then creates a surface around that centerline (right). I'd like the centerline points to show through the surface so I can still see them while I rotate it around. How can I do this?
Edit: To be more clear, I am specifically not looking for the entire surface to be transparent. I don't want to see the back side of the surface showing through, just the centerline.
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Chunru
on 28 Jul 2021
% Plot a sphere and a line
[x, y, z] = sphere;
h = surf(x, y, z);
hold on
plot3(-1:1, zeros(3,1), zeros(3,1), 'r', 'LineWidth', 3);
h.FaceAlpha = 0.5; % make it transparent to see inside
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Chunru
on 28 Jul 2021
Then you can use two axes:
ax1 = axes('XLim', [-1,1], 'YLim', [-1,1], 'ZLim', [-1,1]);
view(3);
ax2 = copyobj(ax1, gcf);
[x,y,z]=sphere;
h = surf(ax1, x, y, z)
plot3(ax2, -1:1, zeros(3,1), zeros(3,1), 'r', 'LineWidth', 3);
axes(ax2);
box off
axis off
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