delete the top and bottom triangular faces of the 3D object

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Hi! Is there a way to delete the top and bottom triangular faces of the tube?
nodes = importdata("NODES.mat");
faces = importdata("FACES.mat");
figure
plot3(nodes(:,1),nodes(:,2),nodes(:,3),'k.','Markersize',2);
hold on
trimesh(faces(:,:),nodes(:,1),nodes(:,2),nodes(:,3),'EdgeColor','k','Linewidth',0.1,'Facecolor','b','FaceAlpha',1)
hold off
axis equal

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Fabio Freschi
Fabio Freschi on 5 Oct 2023
By looking at your data I see that the top and bottom triangles have a predominant z direction of the face normals. So I play with this
% your code
nodes = importdata("NODES.mat");
faces = importdata("FACES.mat");
figure
plot3(nodes(:,1),nodes(:,2),nodes(:,3),'k.','Markersize',2);
hold on
trimesh(faces(:,:),nodes(:,1),nodes(:,2),nodes(:,3),'EdgeColor','k','Linewidth',0.1,'Facecolor','b','FaceAlpha',1)
hold off
axis equal
% create triangulation object to easily calculate face normals
TR = triangulation(faces,nodes);
P = incenter(TR);
F = faceNormal(TR);
% plot on the previous plot to see what's happening
hold on
quiver3(P(:,1),P(:,2),P(:,3), ...
F(:,1),F(:,2),F(:,3),0.5,'color','r');
% dot product with z directed unit vector
proj = F*[0 0 1].';
% threshold (play with this value)
idx = abs(proj) > 0.6;
% remove faces
faces(idx,:) = [];
% new plot without faces
figure
trimesh(faces(:,:),nodes(:,1),nodes(:,2),nodes(:,3),'EdgeColor','k','Linewidth',0.1,'Facecolor','b','FaceAlpha',1)
Hope it helps
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Fabio Freschi
Fabio Freschi on 9 Oct 2023
% find normals oriented like u1 (dot product)
idx1 = abs(F*u1.') > 0.9999;
% find normals oriented like u2 (dot product)
idx2 = abs(F*u2.') > 0.9999;
% find barycenters laying on the magenta plane
ipln1 = abs(sum(P.*u1,2)-sum(u1.*P1,2)) < 0.001;
% find barycenters laying on the magenta plane
ipln2 = abs(sum(P.*u2,2)-sum(u2.*P2,2)) < 0.001;
% remove bottom lid
faces((idx1 & ipln1) | (idx2 & ipln2),:) = [];

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