Thanks for the tip. If I do get that far I will post it. Do I need to
be a developer on this project? Or should I just email out to the group?
On 3/21/2018 10:26 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
On 2018-03-21 18:47-0400 David Bergman wrote:
Alan,
Thanks for the reply. MATLAB and SCILAB functions are overloaded to
allow to this. For example the following figures were generated by
such a call to surf(x,y,z), with x, y, and z each a n-by-n matrix.
I believe this causes the function to trace curves of constant u and
v, though I am not sure. I use it to make 3-dim cardioid patterns.
I believe the following wound work (with some mods).
u = linspace(min,max,n);
[U,V] = meshgrid(u,u);
define some functions.
X(U,V), Y(U,V), Z(U,V)
then
surf(X,Y,Z).
if u and v are theta and phi in spherical coordinates, then
sin(Th).*cos(Ph), sin(Th).*sin(Ph), cos(Th) would generate the unit
sphere.
Hi David:
Cool plots!
And I just realized we could produce something like those with
<http://plplot.org/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.13.0/plpoly3.html>.
For an example that uses calls to plpoly3 to plot a unit sphere, see
<http://plplot.org/examples.php?demo=18>. It should be
possible (but likely not trivial) to modify that example to plot
something more
interesting than the unit sphere, and with a convenient API, e.g.,
void
plmeshxyz(PLINT nx, PLINT ny, PLINT nz, PLFLT_MATRIX x, PLFLT_MATRIX
PLFLT_MATRIX z);
where plmeshxyz calls plpoly3 appropriately inside.
I haven't looked at the details of what would be required, but if you
do have success with this type of approach, we will likely ask you to
donate your work to PLplot under the LGPL so others can benefit.
Alan
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