To exclude a specific zone like a cylinder from your contour plot while using trisurf in MATLAB, follow these steps:
- Define the Exclusion Zone: Determine the mathematical representation of your exclusion zone (e.g., for a cylinder, use its center coordinates and radius).
- Filter Out Points Within the Exclusion Zone: For each point in your dataset, check if it falls within the exclusion zone (e.g., for a cylinder, check if a point is within the cylinder's radius). Exclude these points from your dataset
% Assuming cx, cy, r represent the cylinder's center and radius
insideCylinderIdx = (x - cx).^2 + (y - cy).^2 <= r^2;
xFiltered = x(~insideCylinderIdx);
yFiltered = y(~insideCylinderIdx);
valuesFiltered = values(~insideCylinderIdx);
3.Perform Delaunay Triangulation on Filtered Data: Use the filtered dataset (points outside the exclusion zone) to perform Delaunay triangulation.
tri = delaunay(xFiltered, yFiltered);
4. Plot Using trisurf: Use the trisurf function to create a surface plot from the triangulated data.
trisurf(tri, xFiltered, yFiltered, valuesFiltered);
This approach allows you to create contour plots that exclude specific zones, such as a cylinder, and can be adapted to more complex geometries by appropriately defining and filtering out the exclusion zones before triangulation and plotting.
You can reffer to following documention for more details : https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/trisurf.html
I hope it helps
