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TriRep class

(Will be removed) Triangulation representation

    Note:   TriRep will be removed in a future release. Use triangulation instead.


TriRep provides topological and geometric queries for triangulations in 2-D and 3-D space. For example, for triangular meshes you can query triangles attached to a vertex, triangles that share an edge, neighbor information, circumcenters, or other features. You can create a TriRep directly using existing triangulation data. Alternatively, you can create a Delaunay triangulation, via DelaunayTri, which provides access to the TriRep functionality.


TriRep(Will be removed) Triangulation representation


baryToCart(Will be removed) Convert point coordinates from barycentric to Cartesian
cartToBary (Will be removed) Convert point coordinates from cartesian to barycentric
circumcenters(Will be removed) Circumcenters of specified simplices
edgeAttachments(Will be removed) Simplices attached to specified edges
edges(Will be removed) Triangulation edges
faceNormals(Will be removed) Unit normals to specified triangles
featureEdges(Will be removed) Sharp edges of surface triangulation
freeBoundary(Will be removed) Facets referenced by only one simplex
incenters(Will be removed) Incenters of specified simplices
isEdge (Will be removed) Test if vertices are joined by edge
neighbors(Will be removed) Simplex neighbor information
size(Will be removed) Size of triangulation matrix
vertexAttachments(Will be removed) Return simplices attached to specified vertices


XCoordinates of the points in the triangulation
TriangulationTriangulation data structure

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TriRep objects support indexing into the triangulation using parentheses (). The syntax is the same as for arrays.


Load a 2-D triangulation and use the TriRep constructor to build an array of the free boundary edges:

 load trimesh2d

This loads triangulation tri and vertex coordinates x, y:

trep = TriRep(tri, x,y);
fe = freeBoundary(trep)';

You can add the free edges fe to the plot:

hold on;
plot(x(fe), y(fe), 'r','LineWidth',2);
hold off;
axis([-50 350 -50 350]);
axis equal;

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