Re: Pizza-like plot of (inside) section of sphere

[Jason Nicholson]

Rod,

Here is an example Rod.  Hopefully this give you what you need to get started.

 

Sincerely,
Jason Nicholson

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:35 AM, Rod Letchford <address@hidden> wrote:

Jason sent me this possibility:

1.  Plot it in 3d using one of the many 3d plotting functions such as surf (surface plotting), mesh (mesh plotting), or plot3 (line plotting in 3d).

2.  Use the "view" command with 2 angles to get the right direction of view.  When you do this right, a 3d plot looks like a 2d color plot.

Example Octave Code:

peaks

view([90 0])

view([0 0])

view([90 0]) is clipboard1.png

view([0 0]) is clipboard2.png

The view command takes an vector of 2 arguments that sets two angles, [azimuth elevation].

As a newbie, this might take me awhile to digest. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Rod

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