fill a polygon with a hole

data=[
0.5,  0.8;
1.0,  0.0;
0.0,  0.0;
0.5,  0.8;
0.5,  0.4;
0.1,  0.1;
0.7,  0.1;
0.5,  0.4;
];
h=fill(data(:,1),data(:,2),'r')

the image is:

there is a line between dot(0.5,0.8) and (0.5,0.4) how to delete this line in prefectly? such as

I used the code set(h,'EdgeColor','r') to disappear this line.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What is the problem?

[Qingping]

I want to delete the line between two triangle in automatic!

Answer 1

[lvn]

Alternatively, you can remove all black lines (like that the figure looks good to me)

h=fill(data(:,1),data(:,2),'r','Linestyle','none')

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Simply get rid of the last 5 rows of your data.

data=[
0.5,  0.8;
1.0,  0.0;
0.0,  0.0;
];
h=fill(data(:,1),data(:,2),'r')

That's so simple I guess I'm missing something, or you are.

[Qingping]

can you help me? I re-descript me question!

[Image Analyst]

You need to plot it as two separate objects, first a larger, outer red triangle, then a smaller inner white triangle:

outerTriangle = [
0.5,  0.8;
1.0,  0.0;
0.0,  0.0;
0.5,  0.8;
];
innerTriangle = [
0.5,  0.4;
0.1,  0.1;
0.7,  0.1;
0.5,  0.4;
];
h=fill(outerTriangle(:,1),outerTriangle(:,2),'r');
hold on;
h=fill(innerTriangle(:,1),innerTriangle(:,2),'w')

[Qingping]

In this way, I want to confirm which one is outer object and which one is inner object.

[Patrik Ek]

@Image Analyst: That was not expected, that matlab would not handle the case of polygons with holes, when plotting. I will remove my answer. I also did some research since it felt a bit incredulous that matlab could not do this. However the solution proposed by you were the most commonly recommended. +1 for that

@Qingping: Answer one is is of course the simplest one. However, to keep direction of the polygons you can check the direction or windiness or what you prefer to call it. The dierction should be opposite if the polygons are properly defined. Depending on standard the direction of the outer polygon may vary, but mathematics it is most often defined counter clockwise. However, MATLAB does in a number of occations define it the other way around (eg in mapping toolbox since this is more or less standard when working with maps)

Answer 3

[Steven Lord]

Consider creating and plotting a polyshape. You will receive a warning but depending on how you've generated your data you may be able to avoid this.

data=[
0.5,  0.8;
1.0,  0.0;
0.0,  0.0;
0.5,  0.8;
0.5,  0.4;
0.1,  0.1;
0.7,  0.1;
0.5,  0.4;
];
p = polyshape(data);
plot(p)

Or, if you're building the outermost shape then subtracting away the inner holes:

outer=[
0.5,  0.8;
1.0,  0.0;
0.0,  0.0;
0.5,  0.8];
outerP = polyshape(outer);

hole = [
0.5,  0.4;
0.1,  0.1;
0.7,  0.1;
0.5,  0.4;
];
holeP = polyshape(hole);

totalP = subtract(outerP, holeP);
plot(totalP)