How can I convert a surf plot into a binary volume mask?

I am trying to recreat a shape in MATLAB, specificaly, a capsule. I use MATLAB's piecewise function to produce a line that I want, and then I pass that line to the cylinder method of MATLAB. The resultant looks ike this:

And this is exactly the shape I want. However, I need to convert this surf plot with 2-dimensonal data for X,Y and Z into a volume plot, which I can then convert into a mask. I've tried surf2solid, which works but gets me no nearer to my answer, and I've tried polygon2voxel, which fails because when I use the patch function it returns different size vertices and faces. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[darova]

What kind of data do you have and what do you expect to reach?

Can't you just scale your data?

Answer 1

[Alexander Dumont]

THe best I've gotten so far is I linearize my meshgrid:

P = [X(:) Y(:) Z(:)]

I then do a delaunay triangulation followed by a convexhull

DT = delaunayTriangulation(P);
[C,v] = convexHull(DT);

And then use John D'Errico's function inhull to sample acrss points:

x = linspace(min(X(:)), max(X(:)), 50);
y = linspace(min(Y(:)), max(Y(:)), 50);
z = linspace(min(Z(:)), max(Z(:)), 50);
P = combvec(x,y,z)';
in = inhull(P,DT.Points);

To find points that are in or out of my cylinder

And I display them with

k = find(in==1);
plot3(P(k,1),P(k,2),P(k,3))

Doesn't seem great though.