Filling in a spherical triangle

I have a program that generates and plots the edges of spherical triangles on a unit sphere. How can I fill in the interior of the spherical triangle on the surface? I tried generating a large number of points on the interior but it doesn't look very good - is there a way to turn scattered points like that into a many-sided polygon?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Read about delaunayTraingulation.

Answer 2

[darova]

clc,clear

t = [0; 45; 45]*pi/180;
q = [45; 45; 90]*pi/180;
[x,y,z] = sph2cart([t;t(1)],[q;q(1)],1);        % convert angles to cartesian coordinates
    % interpolate triangle to create more points
tt = [0; cumsum(sqrt(diff(x).^2+diff(y).^2+diff(z).^2))];   % arclength (parameter)
t1 = linspace(tt(1),tt(end),30);                            % more points
x1 = interp1(tt,x,t1);
y1 = interp1(tt,y,t1);
z1 = interp1(tt,z,t1);
[X,Y,Z] = deal( zeros(5,30) );
    % find approximate center of a triangle
x0 = mean(x1);
y0 = mean(y1);
z0 = mean(z1);
    % create internal points
for i = 1:size(Z,2)
    X(:,i) = linspace(x0,x1(i),size(X,1));
    Y(:,i) = linspace(y0,y1(i),size(Y,1));
    Z(:,i) = linspace(z0,z1(i),size(Z,1));
end
    % points are created in a plane
    % move them onto sphere
RR = sqrt(X.^2+Y.^2+Z.^2);      % distance from sphere center to point. Should be '1'
X = X./RR;
Y = Y./RR;
Z = Z./RR;
[xs,ys,zs] = sphere(10);
surf(X,Y,Z)
surface(xs,ys,zs,'facecolor','none')
view(45,45)

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