How do I set retain the colors of SCATTER3 or a SURFACE plot after I plot a MESH over it in MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)?

I have a SCATTER3 plot and when I plot a MESH on the same axis using 'hold on', the colors of the SCATTER3 plot changes. I want to retain these colors.

Reproduction Steps:

[x,y,z] = sphere(16);

X = [x(:)*.5 x(:)*.75 x(:)];

Y = [y(:)*.5 y(:)*.75 y(:)];

Z = [z(:)*.5 z(:)*.75 z(:)];

S = repmat([1 .75 .5]*10,prod(size(x)),1);

C = repmat([1 2 3],prod(size(x)),1);

hs = scatter3(X(:),Y(:),Z(:),S(:),C(:),'filled'), view(-60,60)

hold on

[X,Y] = meshgrid(-1:.125:1);

Z = peaks(X,Y);

h1 = meshc(X,Y,Z);

axis([-3 3 -3 3 -10 5])

You will see that initial colors of the scatter plot was lost after the mesh was plotted.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

To retain the original color values for scatter plot after overlaying a mesh plot, use the 'CLim' property of the axes by setting it to the 'CLim' values after the scatter plot was made.

As an example:

[x,y,z] = sphere(16);

X = [x(:)*.5 x(:)*.75 x(:)];

Y = [y(:)*.5 y(:)*.75 y(:)];

Z = [z(:)*.5 z(:)*.75 z(:)];

S = repmat([1 .75 .5]*10,prod(size(x)),1);

C = repmat([1 2 3],prod(size(x)),1);

hs = scatter3(X(:),Y(:),Z(:),S(:),C(:),'filled'), view(-60,60)

%Get the CLim values after plotting scatterplot

a = get(gca,'Clim')

hold on

[X,Y] = meshgrid(-1:.125:1);

Z = peaks(X,Y);

h1 = meshc(X,Y,Z);

axis([-3 3 -3 3 -10 5])

% Set the previous value of CLim as the Clim of axis

set(gca,'Clim',a);