3D Plot on a Cylindrical Surface

CYL3D plots 3D data on a cylinder.

CYL3D(Zin,theta_min,theta_max,Rho,H,meshscale) plots the 3D profile Zin as a mesh plot on a cylindrical surface of radius Rho, with mesh size determined by meshscale, for equally spaced
angles between theta_min and theta_max. H is the cylinder height.

CYL3D(Zin,...,meshscale,plotspec) plots the 3D profile Zin with a plot type specification. If plotspec = 'surf' a standard MATLAB
surface is plotted, whereas 'mesh', 'surfc' or 'meshc' will plot mesh, surface with countour, or mesh with contour, respectively.

CYL3D(Zin,...,meshscale,interpspec) plots the 3D profile Zin with the interpolation specification, interpspec, which can be one of 'spline', 'linear', 'nearest' or 'cubic'. The default interpolation is linear if not specified.

CYL3D(Zin,...,meshscale,Zscale) plots the 3D profile Zin with the data scaling factor, Zscale. This allows you to scale the peaks and troughs of the data on the surface if the radius is
relatively large. Zscale larger than 1 magnifies the data range correspondingly. Zscale defaults to 1 if not specified.

[Xout,Yout,Zout,Cmap] = CYL3D(Zin,...) returns output values corresponding to the Cartesian positions (Xout,Yout,Zout) with colour mapping, Cmap.

This function was developed under Ver. 7 R14SP1 and has been updated to be compatible with earlier Matlab versions, however there is no guarantee of compatibility.

If you do have any problems using the function please contact the author.