the unit sphere as a mesh: rings of constant polar angle joined by quads split into triangles, fans at the poles, every triangle wound so that its normal points outwards; the vertices as an (n, 3) array and the faces as (m, 3) index triples

Syntax

V, F = sphereMesh()

Rings 5 degree apart.

V, F = sphereMesh(resolution=10*degree)

A coarser mesh.

Keywords

keyword default description
resolution 5*degree the spacing of the rings and of the vertices along them

Output

V (n, 3) array, the vertices on the unit sphere, the poles first and last
F (m, 3) int array, the triangles as indices into V

See also

regionSurface, sphereGridLines, plot3d

source

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/sphereMesh_py.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.