MATLAB: Create patch with color of image

cdatacolormapimagepatch

I have an image and I want to create a patch with color map same as of image i.e. patch should look like image itself. I tried to search and I think it has to do something with cdata but I don't understand how to apply that.
Any suggestions!!

Best Answer

As posted in your former thread: Anders Brun has created a FEX submission, which uses different methods to display an image in 3D: FEX: image3
Example with SURFACE:
im = imread('football.jpg');
surface([1, 320; 1, 320], [1,1; 256, 256], zeros(2), ...
'FaceColor', 'texturemap', ...
'CData', im, 'CDataMapping', 'direct');