I seem to be having troubles to understand the very basic usage of functions for 3D graphs such as surface (and Plots and PyPlot). See the screenshot.
In particular, I am quite confused by the fact that surface plots comes with the x1 and x2 axes (or x and y, if you like) exchanged. I can solve my problem for the time being, just be transposing the z_data array, but I am still not quite happy about it because I do not understand the reason for such behavior of the software. The code seems to be pretty clear. Nevertheless, I suspect the culprit is on line 3 where I am using list comprehension to build the 2D array of function values. Any explanation and recommendation of the right “Julian” way to write such code for a beginner?
Indeed, it was just enough to flip the arguments in the list comprehension on line 3, that is, the new line 3 is
z_data = [f([x1,x2]) for x2=x2_data, x1=x1_data];
and things are fine.
Apparently, I did not fully understand how the list comprehension works (I am not yet fluent with Python either). I did not realize that the order determines which loop is the outer and which loop is inside.
Thanks to this plotting issue I made another step in understanding the basics of the language Thank you.
Thank you.