MATLAB Functions

Generate sphere

sphere
sphere(n)
[X,Y,Z] = sphere(...)

The sphere function generates the x-, y-, and z--coordinates of a unit sphere for use with surf and mesh.

sphere

generates a sphere consisting of 20-by-20 faces.

sphere(n)

draws a surf plot of an n-by-n sphere in the current Figure.

[X,Y,Z] = sphere(n)

returns the coordinates of a sphere in three matrices that are (n+1)-by-(n+1) in size. You draw the sphere with surf(X,Y,Z) or mesh(X,Y,Z).

Generate and plot a sphere:

[X,Y,Z] = sphere(10);
mesh(X,Y,Z)