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Hi, the problem is that the shading coordinate system is still wrong. I want the shading to look like if a light bulb would shine on the ellipsoid. So the colormap should extend from the top maybe and extend in all direction isotropically. Right now there is this "line" dividing the ellipsoid into ...

Hey, I'm trying to display a shaded 3D ellipsoid with axis labels with PGFplots. So far I achieved this.

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots,tikz-3dplot}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[%
width=0.8\textwidth,
axis equal,
axis lines = center,
y ...