{"id":2917,"date":"2011-07-22T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/07\/22\/matlab-3d-figure-to-3d-xhtml\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:42:11","slug":"matlab-3d-figure-to-3d-xhtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/07\/22\/matlab-3d-figure-to-3d-xhtml\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB 3D Figure to 3D (X)HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric’s<\/a> pick this week is MATLAB 3D Figure to 3D (X)HTML<\/a> by Dirk-Jan Kroon<\/a>.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

Dirk-Jan Kroon’s submission makes it easy to transfer 3D MATLAB plots to an interactive graphic on a web page. The tool doesn’t\r\n just translate geometry – it even includes transparency and lighting effects! You can build a complex scientific visualization\r\n in MATLAB and share it on your research web page.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

Dirk-Jan says that the tool currently supports \"Axes, Patch, Line, Surface and Light\" objects. I decided to try this out on\r\n my favorite 3D model, a human femur bone, and added lighting and material effects for good measure. The model has an interesting\r\n back story...\r\n <\/p>\r\n

In grad school I needed an accurate 3D model of a human femur bone for a project. Somehow, I convinced the university med\r\n school to loan me a real human femur bone! I don’t know where this thing came from, but I did get a great 3D scan from it.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

Here's the model in MATLAB:<\/p>\r\n

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And here's the model in my web browser, where the resulting visualization supports zoom, pan, and rotate operations:<\/p>\r\n

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The tool creates both the 3D model as well as a sample web page with the model embedded into it. You can view the page with\r\n any of these popular web browsers:\r\n <\/p>\r\n

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