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

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

Output

h handles of the two line objects drawn

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.