Integrals of discrete data points.
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Does anyone know any functions, preferably on older version of matlab, that can calculate the volume and surface integrals of a series of discrete data points in x,y,z or spherical co-ordinates.
I just have a series of points that produce an enclosed surface so need the volume this surface encloses and its surface area.
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Sargondjani
on 9 May 2012
since nobody answered, that probably means it does not exist...
Walter Roberson
on 9 May 2012
Sometimes no answer means that the volunteers had eye-tests that left their vision blurry for quite a number of hours.
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Walter Roberson
on 9 May 2012
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There is no answer without assumptions about how the points are joined together. Consider:

If you were given just the vertices of that polyhedra, would you guess that particular connectivity ?
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