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I'd like to apply a skew angle (fe) to my plot, similarly to what's shown in the image on the right.In addition, it is better when I change view={0}{90},also it works

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    \documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}   
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.13}
\usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=0.5]
\begin{axis}[
domain=-180:180,
samples=50,
view={0}{90},
colormap/PiYG,
hide axis,
]
\addplot3 [surf] { cos(x)*cos(y) / 5};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
sayros
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My favorite macro (Cunning (La)TeX tricks), which was provided by Bruno at Shear transform a "box", named \slantbox[]{}. The optional argument is the tangent of the slant angle (\phi in the notation of the OP).

Requires pdflatex, as it uses pdf "specials".

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}   
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.13}
\usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}
\newsavebox{\foobox}
\newcommand{\slantbox}[2][.5]{\mbox{%
        \sbox{\foobox}{#2}%
        \hskip\wd\foobox
        \pdfsave
        \pdfsetmatrix{1 0 #1 1}%
        \llap{\usebox{\foobox}}%
        \pdfrestore
}}
\begin{document}
\setbox0=\hbox{\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=0.5]
\begin{axis}[
domain=-180:180,
samples=50,
view={0}{90},
colormap/PiYG,
hide axis,
]
\addplot3 [surf] { cos(x)*cos(y) / 5};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}}
\slantbox[.5]{\box0}\kern14mm
\end{document}

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