MATLAB: How to set retain the colors of SCATTER3 or a SURFACE plot after I plot a MESH over it in MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)

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I have a SCATTER3 plot and when I plot a MESH on the same axis using 'hold on', the colors of the SCATTER3 plot changes. I want to retain these colors.
Reproduction Steps:
[x,y,z] = sphere(16);
X = [x(:)*.5 x(:)*.75 x(:)];
Y = [y(:)*.5 y(:)*.75 y(:)];
Z = [z(:)*.5 z(:)*.75 z(:)];
S = repmat([1 .75 .5]*10,prod(size(x)),1);
C = repmat([1 2 3],prod(size(x)),1);
hs = scatter3(X(:),Y(:),Z(:),S(:),C(:),'filled'), view(-60,60)
hold on
[X,Y] = meshgrid(-1:.125:1);
Z = peaks(X,Y);
h1 = meshc(X,Y,Z);
axis([-3 3 -3 3 -10 5])
You will see that initial colors of the scatter plot was lost after the mesh was plotted.

Best Answer

To retain the original color values for scatter plot after overlaying a mesh plot, use the 'CLim' property of the axes by setting it to the 'CLim' values after the scatter plot was made.
As an example:
[x,y,z] = sphere(16);
X = [x(:)*.5 x(:)*.75 x(:)];
Y = [y(:)*.5 y(:)*.75 y(:)];
Z = [z(:)*.5 z(:)*.75 z(:)];
S = repmat([1 .75 .5]*10,prod(size(x)),1);
C = repmat([1 2 3],prod(size(x)),1);
hs = scatter3(X(:),Y(:),Z(:),S(:),C(:),'filled'), view(-60,60)
%Get the CLim values after plotting scatterplot
a = get(gca,'Clim')
hold on
[X,Y] = meshgrid(-1:.125:1);
Z = peaks(X,Y);
h1 = meshc(X,Y,Z);
axis([-3 3 -3 3 -10 5])
% Set the previous value of CLim as the Clim of axis
set(gca,'Clim',a);
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