geoSphere

Below is a demonstration of the features of the geoSphere function

Syntax
Description
Examples
Building a geodesic dome based on the icosahedron
Using other solid types

Syntax

[F,V,Vs]=geoSphere(n,r,solidType);

Description

Use geoSphere to generate triangulated spheres with nearly geodesic triangle distributions. The density of the triangulation can be controlled through a particular choice of n (number of mesh refinement steps).

Examples

clear; close all; clc;

Plot Settings

fontSize=15;
faceAlpha=1;
edgeColor=0.2*ones(1,3);
edgeWidth=1.5;

Building a geodesic dome based on the icosahedron

The function inputs are n and r which define the mesh refinement and radius respectively. The mesh refinement number n defines the number of subtriangulation (see function subTri) iterations performed on an icosahedron.

r=1; %sphere radius
n=2; %Refinements
[F,V,~]=geoSphere(n,r);
[Fi,Vi,~]=geoSphere(0,r);

Visualize sphere

cFigure; hold on;
subplot(1,2,1); hold on;
gpatch(Fi,Vi,'rw','r',0.8,2);
plotV(Vi,'r.','MarkerSize',50);
camlight headlight;
axisGeom(gca,fontSize);

subplot(1,2,2); hold on;
gpatch(F,V,'bw','k',1,2);
plotV(Vi,'r.','MarkerSize',50);
camlight headlight;
axisGeom(gca,fontSize);
drawnow;

Below is a visualisation for n=0:1:3. The function outputs the geodesic dome faces (F) and vertices (V) and also the spherical coordinates of the vertices (Vs) (this output is suppressed in the example below).

cFigure; % Open figure for plotting

%Defining triangulated geodesic domes with different densities
r=1; %sphere radius
n=0:1:3; %Refinements
pColors=gjet(numel(n));
for q=1:1:numel(n)
    [F,V,~]=geoSphere(n(q),r);
    subplot(2,2,q); hold on;
    title([num2str(n(q)),' refinement iterations'],'FontSize',fontSize);
    gpatch(F,V,pColors(q,:));
    % patchNormPlot(F,V);
    camlight headlight;
    axisGeom(gca,fontSize);
end
drawnow;

Using other solid types

Other platonic solids can also be used as a starting tesselation. However these may not be as geodesic as the result for the icosahedron and dodecahedron.

%e.g. using a cube
solidTypes=1:5;

cFigure; % Open figure for plotting
titleCell={'tetrahedron','cube','octahedron','icosahedron','dodecahedron'};
pColors=gjet(numel(solidTypes));
for q=solidTypes
    [F,V,~]=geoSphere(0,r,q);
    subplot(2,3,q); hold on;
    title(['Based on: ',titleCell{q}],'FontSize',fontSize);
    gpatch(F,V,pColors(q,:));
    % patchNormPlot(F,V);
    camlight headlight;
    axisGeom(gca,fontSize);
end
drawnow;

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