% TERNSURF plot surface diagram for ternary phase diagram
% TERNSURF(A, B, Z) plots surface fitted over Z on ternary phase diagram for three components. C is calculated
% as 1 - A - B.
%
% TERNSURF(A, B, C, Z) plots surface of Z on ternary phase data for three components A B and C. If the values
% are not fractions, the values are normalised by dividing by the total.
%
% NOTES
% - An attempt is made to keep the plot close to the default trisurf type. The code has been based largely on the
% code for TERNPLOT.
% - The regular TITLE and LEGEND commands work with the plot from this function, as well as incrimental plotting
% using HOLD. Labels can be placed on the axes using TERNLABEL
%
% See also TERNCONTOURF TERNPLOT TERNLABEL PLOT POLAR CONTOUR CONTOURF
% b
% / \
% / \
% c --- a
% Author: Peter Selkin 20030507 based on TERNPLOT by Carl Sandrock 20020827
% Modified heavily by Carl Sandrock on resubmission
% To do
% Make TERNCONTOURF and TERNSURF
% Modifications
% 20031006 (CS) Added call to SIMPLETRI to plot triangular surface
% 20070107 (CS) Modified to use new structure (more subroutines)
% Modifiers
% CS Carl Sandrock
function ternsurf(A, B, C, Z)
majors = 5;
if nargin < 4
Z = C;
C = 1 - (A+B);
end;
[fA, fB, fC] = fractions(A, B, C);
[x, y] = terncoords(fA, fB, fC);
% Sort data points in x order
[x, i] = sort(x);
y = y(i);
Z = Z(i);
% The matrixes we work with should be square for the triangulation to work
N = 25;
% Now we have X, Y, Z as vectors.
% use meshgrid to generate a grid
Ar = linspace(min(fA), max(fA), N);
Br = linspace(min(fB), max(fB), N);
[Ag, Bg] = meshgrid(Ar, Br);
[xg, yg] = terncoords(Ag, Bg);
% ...then use griddata to get a plottable array
zg = griddata(x, y, Z, xg, yg, 'v4');
zg(Ag + Bg > 1) = nan;
% Make ternary axes
[hold_state, cax, next] = ternaxes(majors);
% plot data
tri = simpletri(N);
trisurf(tri, xg, yg, zg);
view([-37.5, 30]);
if ~hold_state
set(gca,'dataaspectratio',[1 1 1]), axis off; set(cax,'NextPlot',next);
end