How can I merge two surfaces?

Hi to everyone,

I have to surfaces (created with hold on/off), but I need them to as one surface, to merge them and than that surface combine with one ellipse to become one ruled surface.

I hope my question is clear.. how can I merge two surface, create them as one without using hold on/off?

Thank you

Answer 1

[Thomas Seers]

Assuming you have two sets of vertex lists, pointsA & pointsB, and two sets of face lists, facesA and facesB, you probably want to stack both sets and update the lower face list. The solution is shown in the demo program below:

% create paired surfaces
gridx = repmat(linspace(-1,1,5),5,1);
gridy = repmat(transpose(linspace(-1,1,5)),1,5);
pointsA = [reshape(gridx,5^2,1) reshape(gridy,5^2,1) zeros(5^2,1)+rand(25,1)/10];
pointsB = [reshape(gridx,5^2,1) reshape(gridy,5^2,1) ones(5^2,1)+rand(25,1)/10];

% triangulate
facesA = delaunay(pointsA(:,1), pointsA(:,2)); 
facesB = delaunay(pointsB(:,1), pointsB(:,2));

% % visualize
trisurf(facesA, pointsA(:,1), pointsA(:,2), pointsA(:,3));
colormap jet                    % Default color map.
set(gca, 'Position', [0 0 1 1]); % Fill the figure window.
axis equal vis3d;                % Set aspect ratio.
shading interp;                  % Interpolate color across faces.
camlight left;                   % Add a light over to the left somewhere.
lighting gouraud;                % Use decent lighting.

hold on; 

% visualize
trisurf(facesB, pointsB(:,1), pointsB(:,2), pointsB(:,3));
colormap jet                    % Default color map.
set(gca, 'Position', [0 0 1 1]); % Fill the figure window.
axis equal vis3d;                % Set aspect ratio.
shading interp;                  % Interpolate color across faces.
camlight left;                   % Add a light over to the left somewhere.
lighting gouraud;                % Use decent lighting.

pause(2);

% stack the vertex lists
points = vertcat(pointsA, pointsB);

% update the face list
faceUpdate = facesB+max(max(facesA));
faces = vertcat(facesA,faceUpdate);

close(gcf);

% visualize merged surfaces
trisurf(faces, points(:,1), points(:,2), points(:,3));
colormap jet                    % Default color map.
set(gca, 'Position', [0 0 1 1]); % Fill the figure window.
axis equal vis3d;                % Set aspect ratio.
shading interp;                  % Interpolate color across faces.
camlight left;                   % Add a light over to the left somewhere.
lighting gouraud;                % Use decent lighting.

Hope this helps

Thomas

Answer 2

[Besim Helic]

Thanks for the answer, but it doesn't hit the point (especially not for someone who is beginner in MatLab). It will be clearer maybe when I present my code and problem:

So I have one circular segment and a line: http://pokit.org/get/img/fddf6a866feeada53269091bd137039c.jpg This is created simply by using hold on/off. But, I need them as one surface while I need this surface to make one ruled surface with ellipse in yz-base.

Can I merge this circular segment and a line? Or is there some other way to connect this "body" in xy-base with ellipse in yz-base?

[Thomas Seers]

circular segment and a line indicates 2D geometry: I take it that you mean a semi cylinder and a planar surface. Are you are calling meshgrid?

[Thomas Seers]

BTW you should place comments in the comment box or update your original answer.