Using MATLAB Graphics

Lighting as a Visualization Tool

Lighting

Lighting is a technique for adding realism to a graphical scene. It does this by simulating the highlights and dark areas that occur on objects under natural lighting (e.g., the directional light that comes from the sun). To create lighting effects, MATLAB defines a graphics object called a light.

Lighting Examples

These examples illustrate the use of lighting in a visualization context.

Tracing a stream line thought a volume - sets lighting characteristics of surfaces, patches, and lights.
Using slice planes and cone plots - sets lighting characteristics of objects in a scene independently to achieve a desired result.
Lighting multiple slice planes independently to visualize fluid flow.
Combining single-color lit surfaces with interpolated coloring.
Employing lighting to reveal surface shape - flow data example, surface plot of "sinc" function.

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