peaks (MATLAB Function Reference)

A sample function of two variables.

Z = peaks;
Z = peaks(n);
Z = peaks(V);
Z = peaks(X,Y);
 
peaks;
peaks(N);
peaks(V);
peaks(X,Y);
 
[X,Y,Z] = peaks;
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(n);
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(V);

Description

peaks is a function of two variables, obtained by translating and scaling Gaussian distributions, which is useful for demonstrating mesh, surf, pcolor, contour, etc.

Z = peaks; returns a 49-by-49 matrix.

Z = peaks(n); returns an n-by-n matrix.

Z = peaks(V); returns an n-by-n matrix, where n = length(V).

Z = peaks(X,Y); evaluates peaks at the given X and Y (which must be the same size) and returns a matrix the same size.

peaks(...) (with no output argument), plots the peaks function with surf.

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(...); returns two additional matrices, X and Y, for parametric plots, for example, surf(X,Y,Z,del2(Z)). If not given as input, the underlying matrices X and Y are:

        [X,Y] = meshgrid(V,V)

where V is a given vector, or V is a vector of length n with elements equally spaced from -3 to 3. If no input argument is given, the default n is 49.