Image changing to blue and yellow?

I'm trying to render the moon in orbit around the Earth. I was able to get a decent map of the Moon, which I then want to wrap over a sphere. (This is the same process I did for the Earth, and it turned out perfectly). The only problem is, when I try to do that with the moon image, it changes all the colors around and suddenly becomes blue and yellow.

Here, I've included on the left hand side, the 3d model, and on the right hand side, the image itself.

I'm really at a loss as to why this would be happening... Here is my code if that is useful:

[x,y,z] = sphere(120);
Xmoon = RenderedLunarRadius*x;
Ymoon = RenderedLunarRadius*y;
Zmoon = RenderedLunarRadius*z;
Moon = imread('Moon Texture.jpg');
Moon = flip(Moon ,1);
Moon = surface(Xmoon + 2*Re,Ymoon,Zmoon, Moon,...
       'FaceColor','texturemap','EdgeColor','none');
alpha(Moon,1);
material(Moon,'dull')

Here is a link to the original image file that I am using

[Stephen23]

Change the colormap.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Your image of the moon is treated as indexed color image and the current colormap is applied. Convert it to an RGB image instead:

[Moon, Map] = imread('Moon Texture.jpg');
if ~isempty(Map)
  MoonRGB = ind2rgb(Moon, Map);
else
  MoonRGB = im2double(Moon);
end

Does it work? Perhaps a double(Moon) / 255 is useful also.

[Chris Gnam]

Neither of those seem to fix the problem.

The only other thing that I've noticed is that the behavior can be replicated if I display the image using imagesc(), it then displays a 2d image with the same yellow/blue color scheme.

I tried setting CDataMapping,'direct', instead of the default, but this did not work either.

Do you have any other suggestions as to what might work?

[Jan]

Give us a chance to test, what we suggest: Attach the image file. The solution will be trivial, but currently I need to guess.

Does this help:

MoonRGB = MoonRGB(:, :, ones(1,3));