surface and mesh plots

Please let me know what is the difference between mesh and surface plots?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

As of R2014b, mesh plots return Chart Surface Objects, but surface plots return Primitive Surface Objects

Both of them are objects of type 'surface', and the only difference I can see between them (other than the order that some fields are documented) is that Chart Surface Objects have XDataSource, YDataSource, and ZDataSource properties.