Why do I fail to import external 3D plots with pgfplots?

Question

I have tried to import external 3D plots from Matlab et.al, but to no avail. To show what I managed to accomplish, I present a minimum non-working example below. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers, Stefanos

Makefile:

all: 3dtest.pdf

3dtest.pdf: 3dtest.tex bumps.png
    latexmk -pdflatex="xelatex -shell-escape " -pdf 3dtest.tex

bumps.png: bumps.m
    matlab -nodesktop -nosplash -r "bumps;exit"
    sleep 1
    reset
    convert bumps.png -trim +repage -transparent white bumps.png

bumps.m (don't bother running this with Octave, saving the surface plot is for some reason incredibly slow, and the result isn't very good):

function bumps()
  figure(1)
  [X,T]=meshgrid(linspace(0,1,400),linspace(0,2,400));
  c=[3 2 5 4];
  surf(X,T,abs(sin(c(1)*pi*X).*exp(1j*c(2)*pi*T)+sin(c(3)*pi*X).*exp(1j*c(4)*pi*T)))
  shading interp
  colormap(jet(1000))
  axis off
  setPapersize(6*[4 3])
  print -dpng bumps
end

function setPapersize(papersize)
  set (gcf,'papertype', '<custom>')
  set (gcf, 'papersize', papersize)
  set (gcf, 'paperposition', [0 0 papersize])
end

3dtest.tex:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{axis}[width=10cm]
    \addplot3 graphics[points={
      (0,0,0) => (1212,0)
      (1,0,0) => (2791,428)
      (0,2,0) => (0,557)
      (0.8872,2,1.854) => (1398,2064)
      (1,2,2)
    }] {bumps};
  \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

The resultant image:

EDIT: Original image:

FYI, I'm on Texlive 2012, using XeLaTeX (as seen in the Makefile).

Answer 1

I found that it works on my system with both TL 2011 and TL 2012 and with both pdflatex and xelatex -- provided I use the .png version of the image. xelatex failed to compile with .jpg (which is the format of the graphics in the question); pdflatex worked everytime.

My guess is that something is wrong with the installation on your system; although I could not find what according to your .log files (send by private email).

Answer 2

the same without MatLab. Run with xelatex or latex->dvips->ps2pdf

\documentclass[pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-solides3d}
\begin{document}

\psset{Decran=60,viewpoint=20 70 15 rtp2xyz}
\begin{pspicture}(-7,-5)(5.5,6.5)
\psSurface[ngrid=0.02 0.02,linewidth=0.2pt,axesboxed,algebraic,
   grid=true,showAxes=false,
   tablez=0 0.1 2 { } for, zcolor=0.5 1 1 0.03 1 1 (hsb), 
   Zmin=0,Zmax=2](0,0)(2,4)%
 {sqrt((sin(3*Pi*x/2)*cos(2*Pi*y/2)+sin(5*Pi*x/2)*cos(4*Pi*y/2))^2+
        (sin(3*Pi*x/2)*sin(2*Pi*y/2)+sin(5*Pi*x/2)*sin(4*Pi*y/2))^2 )}
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}