Integrals of discrete data points.

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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since nobody answered, that probably means it does not exist...
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
Walter Roberson on 9 May 2012
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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