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% An illustration of the surface integral.
% It shows how a surface is split into surface elements.
function main ()
% the function giving the surface and its gradient
f=inline('10-(x.^2+y.^2)/15', 'x', 'y');
BoxSize=5; % surface dimensions are 2*BoxSize x 2*BoxSize
M = 10; % M x M = the number of surface elements into which to split the surface
N=100; % N x N = number of points in each surface element
spacing = 0.1; % spacing between surface elements
H=2*BoxSize/(M-1); % size of each surface element
gridsize=H/N; % distance between points on a surface element
figure(1); clf; hold on; axis equal; axis off;
for i=1:(M-1)
for j=1:(M-1)
Lx = -BoxSize + (i-1)*H+spacing; Ux = -BoxSize + (i )*H-spacing;
Ly = -BoxSize + (j-1)*H+spacing; Uy = -BoxSize + (j )*H-spacing;
% calc the surface element
XX=Lx:gridsize:Ux;
YY=Ly:gridsize:Uy;
[X, Y]=meshgrid(XX, YY);
Z=f(X, Y);
% plot the surface element
surf(X, Y, Z, 'FaceColor','red', 'EdgeColor','none', ...
'AmbientStrength', 0.3, 'SpecularStrength', 1, 'DiffuseStrength', 0.8);
end
end
view (-18, 40); % viewing angle
camlight headlight; lighting phong; % make nice lightning
% save to file
print('-dpng', '-r200', 'Surface_integral_illustration.png');
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current | 03:43, 22 April 2007 | 1,164×800 (79 KB) | Oleg Alexandrov | |
| 03:42, 22 April 2007 | 2,400×1,800 (104 KB) | Oleg Alexandrov | |
| 03:33, 22 April 2007 | 800×536 (47 KB) | Oleg Alexandrov | |
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