How to create surface plot with coordinates of sphere?
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I have text file with x y z coordinates for nodes of a sphere. How would I create a surface over these?
I am trying to analyse the change in shape of a sphere that has been deformed. I have the central coordinates. From this, would I be able to calculate the radius of the furthest node?
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Walter Roberson
on 21 Nov 2015
Is the order of the points known relative to each other? If not then the surface of the deformed sphere has to be reconstructed by looking to see which points are near each other, which could result in false connections getting formed as the object is distorted. Working with a point cloud is harder than working with a set of points whose connections are well defined.
Sharunyan Thava
on 21 Nov 2015
Walter Roberson
on 21 Nov 2015
The file did not get attached.
Usually the output of Abaqus is ordered somehow, but at the moment I do not know which order it uses.
Sharunyan Thava
on 21 Nov 2015
Walter Roberson
on 22 Nov 2015
That data only has 22 unique points (ignoring the ID), with the points arranged in pretty much a cuboid grid.
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