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Because this example uses lighting, MATLAB must use either zbuffer or, if available, OpenGL renderer settings. The OpenGL renderer is likely to be much faster displaying the animation; however, you need to use gouraud lighting with OpenGL, which is not as smooth as Phong lighting, which you can use with the zbuffer renderer.

matlab使用zbuffer渲染设置或者OpenGL渲染设置（如果可用的话），而OpenGL渲染在显示动画时是更快的，但需要使用gouraud光照，而它没有使用Phong光照光滑，所以如果需要使用Phong光照的话，就要选择zbuffer渲染设置。

使用方法如下

lighting gouraud 

set(gcf,'Renderer','OpenGL')

或者

lighting phong

set(gcf,'Renderer','zbuffer')