axis scaling in surf(x,y,z)

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Bobatapl wrote:

> I would like to be able to independently scale the 3 axes in  
> surf(x,y,z). It
> looks like what I need is 'dataaspectratio', which only seems to  
> work for 2D
> not 3D plots. Is there a way to scale the axes, that I am missing,  
> or a work
> around?
>
> I am using octave-3.0.2-1.1 with gnuplot-4.2.0-72.1 on 64bit SUSE  
> Linux
> 10.2.
>
> Bob

Bob,

I think I understand what you're looking for.  Can you confirm that  
"daspect" would do what you want?

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/daspect.html&http://www.google.com/search 
?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=daspect&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

In the meantime, does xlim(), ylim(), zlim() not provide the  
functionality you're looking for?

Ben