How to determine if axes are 2D or 3D in Matlab?

Question

As stated, what is the easiest way to determine programmatically if a Matlab axes object is a 2D or 3D plot?

Answer 1

Examine the output of [az,el] = view. If it's 2D, then el == 90.

Answer 2

use: numel(axis)/2

it will return 2 for 2d and 3 for 3d.