TRI_SURFACE_DISPLAY_OPENGL
Display a 3D Triangulated Surface in MATLAB


TRI_SURFACE_DISPLAY_OPENGL is a C++ program which gets the names of the node and element files defining a 3D triangulated surface or "TRI_SURFACE", reads the information from the files, and displays the surface on the screen.

The surface is presented in rotation about the X axis. By clicking the mouse button, the axis of rotation will be advanced from X to Y to Z and back to X.

Usage:

tri_surface_display prefix
where prefix is the common filename prefix, so that: reads the information and displays an image of the surface on the screen.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TRI_SURFACE_DISPLAY_OPENGL is available in a C++ version.

Related Data and Programs:

FERN_OPENGL, a C++ program which uses OpenGL to display the Barnsley fractal fern.

OPENGL, C++ programs which illustrate the use of the OpenGL graphics library;

POLYGONAL_SURFACE_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which displays a surface in 3D described as a set of polygons.

POLYGONAL_SURFACE_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which displays a surface in 3D described as a set of polygons, using OpenGL.

SCREENSHOT_OPENGL, a C++ program which shows how a program using the OpenGL graphics library can save a screenshot of the graphics being displayed.

SPHERE_XYZ_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads XYZ information defining points in 3D, and displays a unit sphere and the points, using OpenGL.

TET_MESH_BOUNDARY, a FORTRAN90 program which returns the nodes and faces of the boundary of a tetrahedral mesh, which themselves form a 3D triangular mesh or "TRI_SURFACE".

TET_MESH_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads files defining a tet mesh and displays an image using Open GL.

TRI_SURFACE, a data directory which contains examples of TRI_SURFACE files, a 3D surface described by a collection of triangles.

TRI_SURFACE_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which displays the 3D graphics information in a TRI_SURFACE file;

TRIANGULATION_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads files defining a triangulation and displays an image using Open GL.

TRIANGULATION_ORDER1_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which reads files defining a piecewise constant triangulation of data, and displays a corresponding 3D surface.

XY_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads an XY file of 2D point coordinates, and displays an image of those points using OpenGL.

XYL_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads XYL information defining points and lines in 2D, and displays an image using OpenGL.

XYZ_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which reads an XYZ file of 3D point coordinates, and displays an image of those points using OpenGL.

Reference:

  1. Edward Angel,
    Interactive Computer Graphics, a Top-Down Approach with OpenGL,
    Addison-Wesley, 2000,
    ISBN: 0-201-38597-X,
    LC: T385.A514.

Source Code:

Examples and Tests:

SPHERE is a sphere, tiled with an 8 by 8 array of logically triangular patches.

List of Routines:

You can go up one level to the C++ source codes.


Last revised on 06 December 2010.