How to plot 3d patch with Faces and vertices

I found the patch function, which allows me to plot patches given faces and vertices. As I am working with 3d data, my faces data is a 10670x3 matrix and the vertices are a 6136 x 3 matrix. When I try to display them with

patch('Faces', faces, 'Vertices', vertices)

It just plots the data projected to a 2d plane. How can I plot them in 3d?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Try this:

patch('faces',faces,'vertices',vertices(:,1:2),'facevertexcdata',vertices(:,3),'facecolor','interp','edgecolor','none') ; 
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[Maximilian Krahn]

it does add color to display the 3d part, but I was looking for a 3d graph, where the poinst are plotted in 3d space

[KSSV]

There is edgecolor option....you change it to black or someother color. HAve a look on triplot, trimesh.

Answer 2

[Maximilian Krahn]

trimesh(faces, vertices(:,1),vertices(:,2),vertices(:,3))

solved it for me. Thanks KSSV

[KSSV]

Thanks is accepting the answer... who helped you...

Answer 3

[Joerg Wensch]

Simply type view(3).