View a surface plot from the top

I want to view a surface plot from the top and i used view(0,90) but still can see the plot except i rotate it. please i would like the yaxis to be vertical and the xaxis horizontal without having to rotate it. the colorbar indicates the zaxis. any ideas

Answer 1

[Lisa Justin]

starting with a value lower than zero for the y-axis fixed it.

 axis([0 1000 -0.001 110 0 110])    
 view(0,90)

With this i didn't need to rotate the plot each time.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

pcolor() is surf() viewed from the top.

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

peaks;
view(2)

Answer 4

[Daniele Nigosanti]

how do you surf a three-dimensional sub matrix?