How to plot a sphere using PLOTCUBE command?

I need to make a sphere of cubes, think something like a sphere in Minecraft made from blocks. I'm thinking the function PLOTCUBE on file exchange is perfect for this. I'm not sure how to implement it thought. It would probably have to be a for loop. If anyone has any ideas, it would be much appeciated.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15161-plotcube

Answer 1

[Rohit Pappu]

A possible solution is as follows

clf;
figure
hold on
tic
% Using spherical coordinates to plot the cubes
for r = linspace(0,1,20) % define the range for radius of sphere
    for phi = linspace(0,pi,10) % define the range for phi angle
        for theta =linspace(0,2*pi,50) % define the range for theta angle
            origin = [(r)*cos(theta)*sin(phi), (r)*sin(theta)*sin(phi), (r)*cos(phi)];
            edges = [0.03,0.03,0.03];
            plotcube(edges,origin,0.8,[0.5 0.5 0.5]);
        end
    end
end
toc
hold off

Note - Since it's a nested for loop, it is computationally expensive