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freeBoundary

(Not recommended) Free boundary facets

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freeBoundary(TriRep) is not recommended. Use freeBoundary(triangulation) instead.

TriRep is not recommended. Use triangulation instead.

Syntax

FF = freeBoundary(TR)
[FF,XF] = freeBoundary(TR)

Description

FF = freeBoundary(TR) returns a matrix FF that represents the free boundary facets of the triangulation. A facet is on the free boundary if it is referenced by only one simplex.

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[FF,XF] = freeBoundary(TR) also returns a matrix of vertex coordinates for the free boundary facets.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Use TriRep to compute the boundary triangulation of an imported triangulation.

Load a 3-D triangulation.

load tetmesh;
trep = TriRep(tet,X);

Compute the boundary triangulation.

[tri,xf] = freeBoundary(trep);

Plot the boundary triangulation.

trisurf(tri,xf(:,1),xf(:,2),xf(:,3), ...
     'FaceColor','cyan','FaceAlpha',0.8)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains an object of type patch.

Open Live Script

Perform a direct query of a 2-D triangulation created with DelaunayTri.

Create a Delaunay triangulation.

x = rand(20,1);
y = rand(20,1);
dt = DelaunayTri(x,y);

Compute the free boundary of the triangulation, and then plot the triangulation with the free boundary edges in red.

fe = freeBoundary(dt)';
triplot(dt)
hold on
plot(x(fe),y(fe),'-r','LineWidth',2)
hold off

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 8 objects of type line.

In this instance the free edges correspond to the convex hull of (x,y).

Input Arguments

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Triangulation representation, specified as a TriRep or DelaunayTri object.

Output Arguments

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Free boundary facets, returned as a matrix. FF is of size m-by-n, where m is the number of boundary facets and n is the number of vertices per facet. The vertices of the facets index into the array of points representing the vertex coordinates TR.X. The array FF could be empty as in the case of a triangular mesh representing the surface of a sphere.

Vertex coordinates of free boundary facets, returned as a matrix. XF is of size m-by-ndim, where m is the number of free facets, and ndim is the dimension of the space where the triangulation resides.

More About

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Simplex

A simplex is a triangle/tetrahedron or higher-dimensional equivalent.

Facet

A facet is an edge of a triangle or a face of a tetrahedron.

Extended Capabilities

Thread-Based Environment
Run code in the background using MATLAB® backgroundPool or accelerate code with Parallel Computing Toolbox™ ThreadPool.

Version History

Introduced in R2009a

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