3D Visualization using

Boris Kaus
ETH Zurich
 Some reasons to use MATLAB

Easy to use, widespread.

Cross-platform (Windows/Mac/LINUX).

High-level programming language (=small code).

Extensive visualization tools.

Program & visualize = debug & develop faster.

Dont worry about things like solving system of
equations etc.

There are no really good (free) alternatives
(although attempts have been made, e.g. Octave).

Most universities do have licenses.
 Some reasons NOT to use MATLAB

MATLAB language is an interpreter language, and

hence slow.

Tuning your codes for production runs can be tricky.
- Although the MILAMIN code from the Oslo group can do ~50
Mio DOFs (using big memory machine)

Expensive (~ $10000/license) if you have to buy it.

Compiler exists, but doesnt bring the speedup we
would like to have.

Typically only good on one processor.

3D visualization is relatively slow.
 Some examples of 2D plots
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Some more elaborate 2D plots

Gorczyk et al.
(2006), G-cubed
 What about 3D?

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surface(peaks,flipud(X),...
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colormap(map)
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Example of quiver3

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[px,py] = gradient(z,.2,.15); [x,y] = meshgrid(-2:.2:2,-1:.15:1);

contour(x,y,z), hold on z = x .* exp(-x.^2 - y.^2);
quiver(x,y,px,py), hold off, axis image [u,v,w] = surfnorm(x,y,z);
quiver3(x,y,z,u,v,w); hold on,
surf(x,y,z), hold off
 Volumetric data

[x y z v] = flow;
h=contourslice(x,y,z,v,[1:9],[],[0], linspace(-8,2,10));
axis([0 10 -3 3 -3 3]); daspect([1 1 1])
Made with sliceomatic (later). camva(24); camproj perspective;
campos([-3 -15 5])
set(gcf, 'Color', [.3 .3 .3], 'renderer', 'zbuffer')
Bucky ball set(gca, 'Color', 'black' , 'XColor', 'white', ...
'YColor', 'white' , 'ZColor', 'white')
box on
 Combined stuff

load wind
figure;
cla
spd = sqrt(u.*u + v.*v + w.*w);
p = patch(isosurface(x,y,z,spd, 40));
isonormals(x,y,z,spd, p)
set(p, 'FaceColor', 'red', 'EdgeColor', 'none');
p2 = patch(isocaps(x,y,z,spd, 40));
set(p2, 'FaceColor', 'interp', 'EdgeColor', 'none')
daspect([1 1 1]);
[f verts] = reducepatch(isosurface(x,y,z,spd, 30), .2);
h=coneplot(x,y,z,u,v,w,verts(:,1),verts(:,2),verts(:,3),2);
set(h, 'FaceColor', 'cyan', 'EdgeColor', 'none');
[sx sy sz] = meshgrid(80, 20:10:50, 0:5:15);
h2=streamline(x,y,z,u,v,w,sx,sy,sz);
set(h2, 'Color', [.4 1 .4]);
colormap(jet)
box on
axis tight
camproj perspective;
camva(34);
campos([165 -20 65]);
camtarget([100 40 -5])
camlight left;
lighting gouraud
Maps etcetera. (partly with mapping toolbox)
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 Graphical User Interfaces

Created with the guide tool of MATLAB

Some more time-consuming examples
Sliceomatic my favorite 3D MATLAB tool

from: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange
Melt-channels?
 But:

I feel that Paraview is faster, better, easier to use than

MATLAB for 3D data visualization.

Plus: its for free