Create surface forms from matrix or raster data for flexible plotting and conversion to other mesh types. The functions quadmesh or triangmesh produce a continuous surface as a mesh3d object as used by the rgl package. This is used for plotting raster data in 3D (optionally with texture), and allows the application of a map projection without data loss and many processing applications that are restricted by inflexible regular grid rasters. There are discrete forms of these continuous surfaces available with dquadmesh and dtriangmesh functions.