Scilab function

mesh2d - triangulation of n points in the plane

Calling Sequence

[nutr,A] = mesh2d(x,y,[front])

Parameters

Description

The arrays x and y are the coordinates of n points in the plane. mesh2d returns a matrix nutr(3,nbt) of the numbers of the nodes of the nbt triangles of the triangulation of the points. It returns also a sparse matrix A representing the connections between the nodes (A(i,j)=1 if (i,j) is a side of one of the triangles or i=j). In the case of 3 parameters front is the array defining the boundary: it is the array of the indices of the points located on the boundary . The boundary is defined such that the normal to the boundary is oriented towards outside. The boundary is given by its connected components: a component is the part (i1,i2) such that front(i1)=front(i2) (the external boundary is defined in the counterclockwise way, see the examples below). The error cases are the following: err = 0 if no errors were encountered; err = 3 all nodes are collinear.

If the boundary is given, the other error cases are: err = 2 some points are identical; err = 5 wrong boundary array; err = 6 crossed boundary; err = 7 wrong orientation of the boundary; err = 10 an interior point is on the boundary; err = 8 size limitation; err = 9 crossed boundary; err = 12 some points are identical or size limitation.

Examples