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    $\begingroup$ You could try POVRay. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 17, 2018 at 14:55
  • $\begingroup$ Can you please provide the equation of this surface in MA format. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 17, 2018 at 16:28
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    $\begingroup$ That's true, MuPAD's graphics defaults were quite nice. (The rest was quite inefficient and unwieldy, though.) In Mathematica, you can add specular effects by injecting Specularity directives though the PlotStyle option into Plot3D. The plot shown above contains also several (white) light sources. These can be set through the option Lighting. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 17, 2018 at 17:44
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    $\begingroup$ mupad was not discontinued. It was bought by Mathworks. (after Mathworks stopped using Maple as its math symbolic engine). I still use it from time to time from inside Matlab. as was mentioned above, it might have good graphics, but it is not too strong in other areas as integration and differential equations. see for example how it did against Mathematica and others in integration tests here $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 17, 2018 at 20:24
  • $\begingroup$ Just for reference, Asymptote gives very nice results too. See e.g. this or this. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 19, 2018 at 1:05