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Question: Plotting 3D opaque shapes from a file?

Question:Plotting 3D opaque shapes from a file?

iff0 37 Maple
complex coordinates
November 08 2007
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I'm generating fairly complex shapes and dumping the x,y,z coordinates of each point to a text file. The shapes have a high degree of spherical symmetry, so they usually look like a torus or ellipsoid. I've been using pointplot3d to plot the shapes using 'style=line'. The result is something that looks close enough to a wireframe plot. However, for my final thesis I will be submitting, I'd like to show the shapes opaquely (with hidden lines). Basically, the type of plot generated by: plot3d(sin(phi)^2, theta=0..2*Pi, phi=0..Pi,coords=spherical,style=wireframeopaque,color=black); I initially thought the surfdata command would do this, but it looks like you need your points on an evenly spaced cartesian grid, and my data is evenly spaced in spherical coordinates (the shapes are a function of theta and phi). Any ideas how I can do this? (I've been searching the web and mapleprimes and I've never found an example close enough to what I'm doing to be helpful...) Thanks.
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