meshunitsphere.m

function [node, face, elem] = meshunitsphere(tsize, maxvol)
%
% [node,face,elem]=meshunitsphere(tsize,maxvol)
%
% create the surface and/or volumetric mesh of a unit sphere
% centered at [0 0 0] and radius 1
%
% author: Qianqian Fang, <q.fang at neu.edu>
%
% input:
%   tsize: maximum size of the surface triangles (from 0 to 1)
%   maxvol: maximum volume of the tetrahedron; if one wants to return
%           elem without specifying maxvol, maxvol=tsize^3
%
% output:
%   node: node coordinates, 3 columns for x, y and z respectively
%   face: integer array with dimensions of NB x 3, each row represents
%         a surface mesh face element
%   elem: integer array with dimensions of NE x 4, each row represents
%         a tetrahedron. If ignored, this function only produces the surface
%
% example:
%   [node,face]=meshunitsphere(0.05);
%   [node,face,elem]=meshunitsphere(0.05,0.01);
%   plotmesh(node,elem,'x>0'); axis equal;
%
% -- this function is part of iso2mesh toolbox (http://iso2mesh.sf.net)
%

dim = 60;
esize = tsize * dim;
thresh = dim / 2 - 1;
[xi, yi, zi] = meshgrid(0:0.5:dim, 0:0.5:dim, 0:0.5:dim);
dist = thresh - sqrt((xi - 30).^2 + (yi - 30).^2 + (zi - 30).^2);
dist(dist < 0) = 0;
clear xi yi zi;

% extract a level-set at v=thresh, being a sphere with R=thresh
% the maximum element size of the surface triangles is tsize*dim

[node, face] = vol2restrictedtri(dist, 1, [dim dim dim], dim * dim * dim, 30, esize, esize, 40000);
node = (node - 0.5) * 0.5;

[node, face] = removeisolatednode(node, face);

node = (node - 30) / 28;
r0 = sqrt(sum((node .* node)'));
node = node .* repmat(1 ./ r0(:), 1, 3);

if (nargout == 3)
    if (nargin == 1)
        maxvol = tsize * tsize * tsize;
    end
    [node, elem, face] = surf2mesh(node, face, [-1 -1 -1] * 1.1, [1 1 1] * 1.1, 1, maxvol, [], []);
    elem = elem(:, 1:4);
end

face = face(:, 1:3);