\documentclass{standalone} %This image was created by [Jake](http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2552/jake) ([source](http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/118573/5645)) \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.9} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ hide axis, view={40}{40} ] \addplot3 [ surf, shader=faceted interp, point meta=x, colormap/greenyellow, samples=80, samples y=5, z buffer=sort, domain=0:360, y domain=-0.5:0.5 ] ( {(1+0.5*y*cos(x/2)))*cos(x)}, {(1+0.5*y*cos(x/2)))*sin(x)}, {0.5*y*sin(x/2)}); \addplot3 [ samples=50, domain=-145:180, % The domain needs to be adjusted manually, depending on the camera angle, unfortunately samples y=0, thick ] ( {cos(x)}, {sin(x)}, {0}); \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}