create mesh from X,Y

I think it is something simple to do, but I can not figure it out. I would like to create a mesh grid from X, Z data. The data is sort of like this:

X= 0:1:500;

Z = 5:10:5000;

I can not use the triangular mesh and so no delaunay or TriScatteredInterp functions. I tried using something simple like:

x=X;

y = X;

[p,q,r]= meshgrid(x,y,Z);

surf(p,q,r);

But this does not works. I get an error that the CData must be an M-by-N matrix or M-by-N-by-3 array. How do I get this working?

Answer 1

[Mike Garrity]

No, meshgrid with 3 inputs is going to give you a 3D grid. You still want a 2D grid for surf. I think that you're just trying to change the order of the arguments to surf:

[a,b] = meshgrid(0:500,5:10:5000);
z = randn(size(a));
surf(a,z,b,z,'EdgeColor','none')
axis equal

[Sumant Jha]

Thanks for the answer. Now I am curious, how do we get the 3-D grid. Because, the grid I want has to has X and Y and Z with X = Y and Z being the value of the cell formed by grid?