How can I resolve this error?

My error is :

 Error in parseplotapi (line 15)         [cax, args] = axescheck(args{:});

This is the function:

 function [v6, cax, args] = parseplotapi(varargin)
    % This undocumented function may be removed in a future release

    %USEHGPLOTAPI determine plotting version
    %  Checks to see which HG plotting API should be used.

    

    % Is the v6 flag passed? 
    [v6,args] = usev6plotapi(varargin{:});

    % Parse args for axes parent
    try
        [cax, args] = axescheck(args{:});
    catch e
        ids = {'MATLAB:graphics:axescheck:DeletedAxes',...
            'MATLAB:graphics:axescheck:DeletedObject',...
            'MATLAB:graphics:axescheck:NonScalarHandle'};
        if any(strcmp(e.identifier,ids))
            throwAsCaller(e);
        else
            rethrow(e);
        end
    end
end

but I haven't written this function nor used the word parleplotapi. The second error ist this one: Out of memory. The likely cause is an infinite recursion within the program.

I want to use the function plot3, but maybe the error comes from another part of my function:

figure; 

% image background of the sample

img = imread('sample-return.JPG') ;

imagesc(0:xmax, 0:ymax, img)

rectangle('Position',[0 0 xmax ymax])

hold on 

% plot of the position of the dots

plot3(X,Y,height,'.','color','k','markersize',12)

set(gca,'DataAspectRatio',[1,1,10])

grid on

% creation of the mesh with a 0.1 cm grid

[Xi,Yi] = meshgrid(0:0.1:xmax, 0:0.1:ymax);

% computation of the energy values of all points of the mesh grid

Zi = griddata(X,Y,energy,Xi,Yi); 

% 2D plot of these values

surf(Xi,Yi,Zi,'edgecolor','none')

hold off

alpha(.5)

xlabel('x [cm]')

ylabel('y [cm]')

h = colorbar;

caxis([0.3,1.2])

colormap('jet')

It would be great if somebody could help me with this problem! Thanks in advance!

Copyright 2010-2014 The MathWorks, Inc.

[Walter Roberson]

What are xmax and ymax?

[Caroline Zuck]

xmax and ymax are the seize of my image and also the borders of my coordinate system here (xmax=50, ymax=100)