how to plot a 3d function (with two independent variables)

Hi,

I am trying to plot a 3d function,which contains two independent variables. I do not know is that I am not getting it right or something, it seems very complicated to plot it in Matlab. Could someone help me?

% d11=0.3;
d12=-0.1;
d21=0.2;
d22=-0.15;
r=0.01;
p1=0.4;
p2=0.6;
syms c1 
syms c2
%eucara=@(c1,c2) -(1/r)*p1*exp(-r*(d11*c1+d12*c2))-(1/r)*p2*exp(-r*(d12*c1+d22*c2));
eucara= -(1/r)*p1*exp(-r*(d11*c1+d12*c2))-(1/r)*p2*exp(-r*(d12*c1+d22*c2));
ezplot(c1,c2,eucara)

I find that ezplot is most close to the function I want. But I get the error that there are Too many sym objects to plot. I think it means in this method, there should not be any variables in the function. So I need to write down the explicit expressions for eucara with p1,p2...etc being assigned with some particular numbers. But I do want to change them to make the plot more flexible. So my question is

• How to plot a 3d function?
• In which way the plot is flexible in the sense that it is easy to change the parameters of the function.

Answer 1

[A Jenkins]

ezplot() is a 2d function. ezsurf() will give you 3d.

ezsurf(char(eucara),[0 1000 0 1000])

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Use matlabFunction() to transform the symbolic expression into an anonymous function. Then apply that function over a grid of points and plot the result.