plotSphericalGrid edit page

draw the meridians and small circles of a spherical grid in 3d

The three dimensional counterpart of the polar grid sphericalPlot draws on a projected plot. It is used by plotEmptySphere for the backdrop of a three dimensional scatter plot, and by vector3d/plot3d to lay a grid over a pole density function.

Syntax

plotSphericalGrid(ax)
plotSphericalGrid(ax,'grid_res',10*degree)
plotSphericalGrid(ax,'radius',1.002)

Input

ax axes handle

Output

h handles of the two line objects drawn

Options

grid_res angular spacing of the grid lines, default 15 degree
radius radius of the sphere the grid is drawn on, default 1
center center of that sphere, default the origin, vector3d
gridColor line color, default light gray

See also

plotEmptySphere vector3d.plot3d sphericalPlot

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/plotSphericalGrid.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

Other papers describing specific MTEX methods are listed under Publications — please cite the one that best fits your application. The MTEX source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0; the text and figures of this documentation are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including by automated systems — provided The MTEX Developers and this page are credited.