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As the title suggests, I would like to have a solid-colored sphere (say e.g. red) with some dots on its surface (say black). I managed to plot the sphere, color it, and plot the points. But then the points are not always on top of the sphere but rather get hidden behind the sphere although they are located outside of it:

set term wxt
set view equal xyz
set parametric
set urange [-pi/2:pi/2]
set vrange [0:2*pi] 
set isosamples 20,20
set palette model RGB functions 1,0,0
set pm3d depthorder

R=0.9

splot R*cos(u)*cos(v),R*cos(u)*sin(v),R*sin(u) w pm3d,\
"-" w p pt 7 pointsize 0.5 lc 0
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 1
e

pause -1

Note that even the 

set pm3d depthorder

option from GNUPLOT: Plotting on the surface of a sphere does not help.

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  • When I removed `set pm3d depthorder` the points appeared with fedora gnuplot 5.0 patch1. – meuh Jan 29 '18 at 17:15
  • Related: [How to plot the surface of a sphere in gnuplot?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47572292/how-to-plot-the-surface-of-a-sphere-in-gnuplot/) – user8153 Jan 29 '18 at 17:31

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