Why do I get white line artifacts in my image when rotating a 3-D SURF plot in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3)?

If I create a 3D plot using SURF and then rotate the image so that only one flat plane is displayed, there is a white outline artifact around the edges of the plot. It shows up in the figure window and when the image is exported.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The white line is an artifact of the OpenGL renderer. To work around this issue, change the renderer to 'painters', using the following command:

set(gcf,'renderer','painters')

Likewise, when exporting the figure, you can use the following code to specify the renderer:

print('-djpeg', '-r90','-painters', jpgfilename)

This will create a '.jpg' file using the painters renderer.