Removing lines in scatter plot when using shading interp

I'm using scatter and pcolor in the same axis but on different data. When I run shading interp on the pcolor plot, colored lines are plotted connecting all the scatter points on the other data. Here is an example:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(30);

scatter(X(:),Y(:),20,Z(:),'filled')

shading interp

Does anyone know a way to get rid of those lines? while still preserving the way pcolor looks in the same axis?

Thanks

Ashley

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, I do not see the pcolor()? pcolor() is a routine to create pseudo-color plots; you do not appear to have invoked it. pcolor() is not at all the same as shading interp.

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

The shading command affects all surface and patch objects, including the child patch object that's part of a scattergroup object. You can manually set the edge color of that patch back to it's default value:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(30);
pcolor(X,Y,Z+10);
hold on
hs = scatter(X(:),Y(:),20,Z(:),'filled');
shading interp;
set(get(hs,'children'), 'edgecolor', 'none')

Answer 2

[Ashley]

Thanks! that worked!