Fill the interior of a cylinder surface - SURF - generated by parametric equations

I've generated a cylinder using the parametric equations:

u = linspace(0,2*pi,50);
v = linspace(0,2*pi,50);
[u,v] = meshgrid(u,v);

x = cos(u);
y = sin(u);
z = v;

where u and v are 0-pi.

I've got a plot surf(x,y,z) of this cylinder and I want to fill all the interior points. Does anyone know how I can do this?

How can I do this?

[William]

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[Brendan Hamm]

By fill the interior points, do you mean you want each (x,y,z) pair inside to contain a marker of some sort or do you want there to be surfaces at each of the heights in z?

[Andrew Newell]

Or do you mean that you want to cap the ends so it looks solid?

[William]

I want it to be "physically" solid, so the interior points also have markers. Ideally so it is represented in binary i.e. 1 - where it is, 0 - where it isn't

Answer 1

[Brendan Hamm]

If you are trying to just put anything in that location you can do the following to place circles there. First create a meshgrid of the x-y space.

surf(x,y,z)
hold on

u2 = linspace(-1,1);
v2 = u2;
[x2, y2] = meshgrid(u2,v2);

% Find distances
dist = sqrt(x2.^2 + y2.^2);

dist(dist>1) = 1;
dist(dist<1) = 0;
dist = logical(dist); % Logical matrix of exterior points

% Set exterior points to NaN
x2(dist) = NaN;
y2(dist) = NaN;

z2 = 2*pi*ones(size(x2)); % Just the highest point.

scatter3(x2(:),y2(:),z2(:)); % Scatter expects vectors, so stack everything

If you wish, you can fill the markers, change the colors, etc. If you need all the points filled you just need to do this for each value of z(:,1);

[William]

this would work for a straight cylinder, I'm just trying to think how it could relate to more complex tubes e.g. a spiral

I need to include the specific parametric equations in the filling, rather than just define a new shape of the same dimensions.

(eventually the radius will vary also, so stacking circles may get a bit complicated, but possible i suppose)

[Brendan Hamm]

The process would be similar as you can still solve for the boundary of your shape at each value of z in your grid.

[Jetsadaporn Simsiriwong]

Can i get your spiral code pls?