Plot multiple surfaces on same plot with different color for each surface

Hi. I have to superimpose several surfaces on the same plot, something like:

surf(X1,Y1,Z1); hold on
surf(X2,Y2,Z2); hold on
surf(X3,Y3,Z3); hold on
... etc

This shows all surfaces with the same color scheme. I would like to show each surface with a different color map. Does anybody have suggestions? Many thanks.

[Anant Gairola]

I have the same question. Did you find an answer? I have three surface plots, one on each xy, xz and yz planes. I want a different color bar scheme for each surface plot.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Like this:

figure;hold on
[xx yy] = meshgrid(1:10);
colormap([1 0 0;0 0 1]) %red and blue
surf(xx,yy,rand(10),ones(10)); %first color (red)
surf(xx,yy,rand(10)+10,ones(10)+1); %second color(blue)
view(17,22)

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Answer 2

[Wagih Abu Rowin]

You can specify the color for each surface individually like:

close all
figure;
%surf 1
surf(peaks+5,'FaceLighting','gouraud',...
    'MeshStyle','column',...
    'SpecularColorReflectance',0,...
    'SpecularExponent',5,...
    'SpecularStrength',0.2,...
    'DiffuseStrength',1,...
    'AmbientStrength',0.4,...
    'AlignVertexCenters','on',...
    'LineWidth',0.2,...
    'FaceAlpha',0.2,...
    'FaceColor',[0.07 0.6 1],...
    'EdgeAlpha',0.2);
hold on
%surf 2
surf(peaks,'SpecularExponent',1,...
    'SpecularStrength',1,...
    'DiffuseStrength',1,...
    'AmbientStrength',0.4,...
    'FaceColor',[0.5 0.5 .5],...
    'AlignVertexCenters','on',...
    'LineWidth',0.2,...
    'EdgeAlpha',1);

The results look like this: