SPHERE_STEREOGRAPH_DISPLAY
Visualize the Stereographic Projection


SPHERE_STEREOGRAPH_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which demonstrates the stereographic projection between a sphere and a plane by displaying a set of points and their images under the mapping.

This program is primarily an auxilliary demonstration of the properties of the SPHERE_STEREOGRAPH library; it is not a standalone application, and while it can be used to understand how to compute and display stereographic projections, a considerable amount of user modifications would be needed to adapt it to each particular problem of interest.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

SPHERE_STEREOGRAPH_DISPLAY is available in a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

SPHERE_STEREOGRAPH, a MATLAB library which computes the stereographic mapping between points on the unit sphere and points on the plane Z = 1.

SPHERE_GRID, a MATLAB library which provides a number of ways of generating grids of points, or of points and lines, or of points and lines and faces, over the unit sphere.

SPHERE_LEBEDEV_RULE_DISPLAY, a MATLAB program which reads a file defining a Lebedev quadrature rule for the sphere and displays the point locations.

sphere_stereograph_display_test

SPHERE_VORONOI_DISPLAY_OPENGL, a C++ program which displays a sphere and randomly selected generator points, and then gradually colors in points in the sphere that are closest to each generator.

Reference:

  1. C F Marcus,
    The stereographic projection in vector notation,
    Mathematics Magazine,
    Volume 39, Number 2, March 1966, pages 100-102.

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Last revised on 27 March 2019.