\documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{preview} \pgfplotsset{ colormap={whitered}{ color(0cm)=(white); color(1cm)=(orange!75!red) } } \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ colormap name=whitered, width=15cm, view={335}{50}, enlargelimits=false, grid=major, domain=-2:2, y domain=-2:2, samples=55, %60 : TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]. % see also http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/7954/5645 xlabel=$x$, ylabel=$y$, zlabel={$z$}, colorbar, colorbar style={ at={(-0.1,0)}, anchor=south west, height=0.25*\pgfkeysvalueof{/pgfplots/parent axis height}, title={$f(x,y)$} } ] \addplot3[surf] {x*y*y/(x*x+y*y*y*y)}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{preview} \end{document}